Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard the Dutch freighter Utrecht, carrying sugar, general cargo and eleven passengers from Singapore to New York, perhaps no man was more envied by his fellow crewmen than Willem Marie Louis Van Rie, the ship's radio officer. He was a newcomer to the 62-man crew, son of the headmaster of a Roman Catholic school in Holland, married (18 months ago to the daughter of a leather manufacturer), a prospective father. Moreover, handsome Willem Van Rie had something that most sailors can only dream about as they toss in their lonely bunks on the heaving seas: a pretty...
Even Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan hastily dropped his unruffled "Supermac" pose. "The Labor Party is deeply divided," he told a London suburban crowd. "Some are practically fellow travelers, some almost Communist." And in speech after speech during a tour of Scotland the Prime Minister boldly laid claim to credit for the greatest diplomatic event of the year. "Do you think," he asked, "that Mr. Khrushchev and President Eisenhower would have been discussing together at Camp David if I had not decided to break the ice and go to Moscow last winter...
...carefully working all the likely rocks that he had spotted in half a century of stalking the striper. The big ones were running in their annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
Folksy, derrick-sized Sid Williams Richardson, unlike some of his fellow Texas wheeler-dealers, never hunted publicity, often quoted one of his favorite maxims: "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'!" His dry, country humor and his ability to translate a complex business or political situation into plain horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin...
...headed faith in the buoyancy of the U.S. economy, condoned inflation as the price of increased productivity, and even (1959) urged a $3 billion annual federal deficit to sustain demand; of a kidney ailment; in Boston. A startlingly accurate economic prophet, Slichter usually championed the minority view. When his fellow economists took a leaf from Marx and gloomily predicted the stagnation of a mature economy in the '30s, Slichter forecast the growth of the '40s. When his colleagues prepared for a depression to follow World War II, Slichter predicted the boom. Trained as a labor economist, Slichter never...