Word: eastward
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William Orville Douglas, 58, appointed by F.D.R. in 1939. Born in Minnesota, raised in Yakima, Wash., sheep-herded eastward to work his way through Columbia Law School with topflight record. Practiced in Wall Street, taught briefly at Columbia, brilliantly at Yale. A born rebel, became chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission in 1937, thereupon unleashed, in his own word, "sulphurous" attack on Wall Street. Although he had never been a judge, Roosevelt appointed him to the court on the retirement of Louis Brandeis. On the bench, pencil behind ear, hair awry, Presbyterian Douglas became a dauntless proponent of labor, civil...
...trying to expand too far too fast and warning the Turks that they were scaring investors away. Yet last week, as he flew off to a Baghdad Pact meeting in Karachi, tough Premier Adnan Menderes had the look of a man well satisfied with things. As his plane winged eastward, he could look pleasantly down on Anatolia, usually brown, now lushly green. Six weeks of rain had changed the vital wheat crop prospects from poor to good...
...supercarrier Forrestal, from Naples the 45,000-ton battleship Wisconsin, from Leghorn the carrier Lake Champlain, from Villefranche and Marseille the heavy cruisers Salem and Des Moines. With them steamed a swarm of destroyers, transports, tankers. Under leathery Fleet Commander Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, the atomic-armed Sixth was eastward bound to back up and buck up little Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Sail When Ready." The Joint Chiefs of Staff needed no further notice to send the Sixth Fleet hurrying eastward from its peaceful anchorages in the Western Mediterranean. Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, issued the curt order: "Sail when ready." The Sixth Fleet sailed under the straight-faced explanation that it was merely returning to its normal theater of operations...
...cause of the fire could not be determined, although it was believed to have started near Route 32, burning eastward into the Harvard Forest. The fire began at 1:30 p.m. and was quenched by 7:30 p.m., before destroying Forest buildings and even more valuable timber...