Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overseen the wrenching political transition from Ngo Dinh Diem to Nguyen Cao Ky with rare aplomb. Lodge's deputy, William J. Porter, 52, took a scant 18 months to turn "rural pacification" from a Utopian dream to a viable program. But if the departing officials set a fast pace, the new team that Lyndon Johnson presented last week gives every promise of being able not only to keep it up but to improve...
...doses of vaccine have been injected, most of them with the needle, by physicians in private practice. In mass campaigns, where 50 or more children can be vaccinated at once, it is more economical, as well as better psychology, to use an air gun that gives a shot so fast that it's all over before most kids start to howl...
...procrastination last year, when he could not decide whether or not to raise income taxes. One immediate effect: the stock market responded with its biggest one-day volume since 1929 (see following story). Still to be learned is whether New Economist Johnson can warm up the economy as fast as it cooled last fall...
...over, stocks made only modest gains, but volume on the New York Stock Exchange ballooned to 14.9 million shares, second only to the 16.41 million shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929. The Big Board's two-year-old high-speed ticker, which flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read, fell behind by a record 27 minutes. In the first hour's speculative fervor, the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 13.70 points as buyers bid up the price of airlines, railroads, machine-tool and other equipment makers. But the rally wilted as quickly...
...stage, Succeed succeeded by being as broad as it was wide. A pastel-colored animated cartoon of contemporary big business, it musically chronicled the rise of a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rodent, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse), who won the rat race by running just fast enough to keep up with his boss (Rudy Vallee...