Word: fells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landed within 200 ft. of the Rex, originally an apartment building and now a U.S. billet. American officers there abandoned their breakfast and threw themselves under tables while Vietnamese waitresses screamed in terror. A fourth round smacked into a bookshop on Tu Do Street, killing two Vietnamese maids; one fell, decapitated, next to the fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests out of their beds, cut telecommunications, dug a huge crater only a few feet from the statue of the Madonna of Peace in John F. Kennedy Square. The final toll for the raid...
...Friends fell away. Some were killed in action; others, like Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the fearless, ruthless, but highly effective National Police chief, were wounded in street fighting in Saigon. Two weeks ago, a malfunctioning rocket fired from a U.S. helicopter gunship smashed into a forward command post and in one shattering blow wiped out virtually the whole top level of Saigon's city administration, including four of Ky's most powerful backers. But by far the greatest damage was caused by President Thieu's gradual consolidation of power: without consultation, he fired Premier Nguyen...
...hurt investors, as prices rise before their orders can be placed. Goodbody & Co. stopped giving quotations and White, Weld & Co. halted its over-the-counter operations an hour before the new and foreshortened 3:30 p.m. official closing time. Despite all the activity, most indexes showed that stock prices fell slightly last week; the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 1.26 points to close at 913.62. Many brokers dismissed the declines as a mere pause before a traditional summer rally...
...positions of the really big firms seldom alter. General Motors was still the biggest industrial corporation in the U.S., as well as in the world, with 1967 sales of $20 billion and net earnings of $1.6 billion. But Ford Motor Co., which had been No. 2 in national standings, fell to No. 3. Moving into second place behind G.M. was Standard Oil (New Jersey). Sales under Chairman Michael Haider (TIME cover, Dec. 29, 1967) were $13.3 billion last year, or nearly $2.8 billion higher than Ford's. Two other corporations among the top ten also moved up. IBM, with...
...time among the industrial corporations with sales of more than a billion dollars: Ling-Temco-Vought, Signal Oil & Gas, Raytheon, Consolidated Foods, Honeywell, Coca-Cola, Getty Oil, TRW and Colgate-Palmolive. Five other corporations-Inland Steel, Grumman Aircraft Engineering, General Tire & Rubber, Jones & Laughlin Steel, and Olin Mathieson Chemical-fell out of that group. In sum, including also the merger of the billion-dollar member Douglas Aircraft into McDonnell Douglas last year, there was a net gain of three-to a total of 83-in the elite of the corporate world with sales in ten figures or more...