Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, and a leading Democratic aspirant for the U.S. presidency, was taking a well-deserved rest. He had safely escorted the second civil rights bill since Reconstruction (TIME, April 18) through 53 energy-sapping days of stormy debate, and the Senate-his Senate-was in recess for the Easter holidays. But Johnson yielded only his lanky body to the therapy of the sun; his restless mind was as busy as a hummingbird. From the sprawling old ranch house came the clatter of typewriter keys, as a pretty secretary tapped out a just-dictated letter; when Johnson called her through...
...came angry howls of "Resign . . . resign." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, whose Laborites have long insisted that Blue Streak should not have been undertaken in the first place, was on his feet demanding an immediate investigation; when he was refused, he promised to force a vote of censure after the Easter recess. Tory backbenchers were shocked. It was, said Conservative F. W. Farey-Jones, a "calamitous" move, and one that would put Britain's proud science "in pawn to the U.S. for the next 25 to 50 years...
Buoyed up by the approach of Easter and an easing of the nation's worst weather in years, retail sales are riding high across the U.S. Department store sales for the last week reported were 22% above the corresponding week a year ago. Adjusted to fit the pre-Easter sales pattern (Easter this year is three weeks later than last), the figure is still 8% above the comparable 1959 week...
...Easter Services. CBS presents Roman Catholic and Protestant services from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the National Cathedral in Washington (10 a.m.-12 noon). NBC presents Catholic Mass from St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, Cincinnati (11 a.m.-12 noon). ABC presents Bishop Pike's Easter Meditation...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Easter music and ballet, with the University of Utah Corps de Ballet and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir...