Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more thought-provoking responses to Agnew was a speech by Fred Friendly to the California Institute of Technology. Urging "bolder, not blander illumination" of issues on television, Friendly recalled regretfully that when he was president of CBS News in 1964, he decided against analysis of President Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin speech. Edward R. Murrow, for one, immediately phoned Friendly to deplore the omission. "I shall always believe," Friendly said last week, "that if journalism had done its job properly that night and in the days following, America might have been spared some of the agony that followed...
...came into this world with nothing," says Herman W. Ryals, a retired civil service worker, "and it looks as though that's the way I'm going to leave it." His lament is becoming familiar among the thousands of Gulf Coast victims of last August's Hurricane Camille. Nothing remains of the crippled Ryals' modest frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired...
...Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm, the commission hastily approved a 50% rate increase along the Gulf. Last week public outcry and political pressure prompted the commission to postpone the rate rise until after it holds another hearing. Considering the $135 million in storm losses they face, insurance companies may be justified in raising their rates. The delays in claim settlements, however, have left a bitter residue...
...chalice aboard Yankee Clipper. At the University of Texas, which he attended on a Navy scholarship, Texas-born Bean made the wrestling and gymnastic teams and met his wife Sue, a college tumbler. Like most of the astronauts, he likes to exercise (his favorite sport: surfing in the Gulf of Mexico). Calm, self-possessed and straightforward, he trained patiently for six years for his first space flight. He and his wife have two children...
...tonnage could travel it fully loaded, as could tankers up to 70,000 tons. Even supertankers, whose fully loaded hulls are too deep for the canal's 38-ft. channels, could take twelve days off the southbound trip by sailing under light ballast through Suez to the Persian Gulf refineries rather than sailing around the Cape of Good Hope...