Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...franc crisis, De Gaulle was being faithful to his genuine, almost mystical belief that the sanctity of France depends on the stability of the franc. As he put it in 1963: "Neither Italy nor Belgium has a government. The United Kingdom and Germany are on the eve of not having one. We are the only country that is stable and sound; this I have brought, and it will last after...
...NASA's schedule. If all goes well, on the morning of Dec. 21 a 3,100-ton Saturn 5 will rise slowly from its pad at Cape Kennedy. Three days later, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A. Anders will be spending Christmas Eve in the spaceship Apollo 8, farther from home than any men have ever been: they will be circling the moon...
...ODDS for anyone on earth being struck by a meteorite in this century are three in a hundred. On Christmas Eve in 1965 a meteorite exploded over England and dumped 103 pounds of rock on the Midlands town of Barwell. No one was hit, but it was a close call...
...campaign, many Republican strategists wished that Agnew had remained What's-His-Name. The Vice President-elect had become not only a figure of comedy and controversy but also a decided liability. "Sure I think he hurt us," said a Nixon aide on Election Eve...
...hopes will make him the first man to solo a light plane over both poles, Max Conrad, 65, the famed flying grandfather, discovered that his wife's enthusiastic embrace had left him with a cracked rib. "I'll get even with her on New Year's Eve when I get back to Arizona," said Max. And, with a little tape around his chest, off he went in his twin-engine Piper Aztec on a 33,000-mile tour that should take him to Alaska, the North Pole, Norway, North Africa, South America, the South Pole, New Zealand...