Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the ancient bed of a glacial lake, U.S. 89 runs eastward out of Great Falls, Mont., and climbs into the Little Belt Mountains. There, above the once prosperous coal-mining town of Belt (pop. 757), a plain link fence encloses two acres of barren land and Russian thistle, four watchful electronic sentinels, and a few drab slabs of concrete. Beneath that concrete is buried an Air Force Minuteman missile-one of the most efficient instruments of intercontinental destruction the U.S. possesses...
...matchless technique. The students, who range from talented teenagers to working professionals, sit with their instruments at the ready while Maestro Piatigorsky rumbles out his Russian-flavored instructions, or Primrose -ruddy, tweedy and bespectacled- earnestly demonstrates the fine points of bowing. The unexpected comic on the faculty is normally glacial Jascha Heifetz, who thoroughly enjoys his own mild musical gags, e.g., rippling through Bach with assorted notes slightly flatted to see if the pupils are alert enough to pick them...
...Glacial Silence. At week's end the General Assembly overwhelmingly passed the resolution 66-0, with 30 nations-including the U.S. and Britain-abstaining. Unresolved, of course, was whether France would pay any more attention to the General Assembly than it had paid to an earlier decision by the U.N. Security Council calling on both France and Tunisia to withdraw to their original positions. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, somewhat satisfied with paper victory, sounded a conciliatory note. "The dead of Bizerte must not be an obstacle for the future," he said. "Once our territory is entirely liberated...
...glacial Charles de Gaulle promptly melted. It was not the first time Jackie had worked her magic on the French President; last year, during his trip to Washington. De Gaulle observed with a sigh: "If there were anything I could take back to France with me, it would be Mrs. Kennedy...
...longtime supporter of the regime, Delgado struck out for himself in 1958 when he broke all the rules by campaigning seriously for the presidency of Portugal in one of Salazar's mock elections. There were plenty of issues to campaign on. After 29 years of Salazar's glacial rule, literacy barely reaches 60%, the tuberculosis rate is almost double that of any other Western European country, and per capita income ranges from $100 to $199 a year-on a level with Libya and below Mexico and Panama...