Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temperance v. Gaullist hubris abroad, the needs of ordinary Frenchmen v. building the Bomb. As the campaign progressed, successive polls showed De Gaulle's once massive support tumbling. Alarmed, Gaullist strategists persuaded the general to use more of his television time. Forced into a defensive plea ill-suited to his imperial style, he came off poorly, looked pale and haggard beside his youthful competitors. Gaullist ministers whirled into a frenzy of activity in the closing days of the campaign, but it was too late. The televised image stuck. "Suddenly the father of his country was the grandfather," noted...
Also it was announced that Anastas I. Mikoyan, 70, grand old man of the Bolsheviks after 48 years in Soviet politics, resigned from his largely ceremonial job as President of the Praesidium, the Soviet Parliament, because of ill health. He was replaced by Podgerny...
Career Cap. As for Collins' ambitions, even his supporters acknowledge that he would hardly throw over his post in Washington for another four years in Tallahassee. The U.S. Senate seems a likelier cap for his career. Senator George Smathers, who has been seriously ill with ulcers and a kidney ailment, has already announced that he may not run again in 1968. Senator Spessard Holland, now 73, may also decide to step down when his present term expires in January 1971. Though little more than a mile separates the Commerce Department from Capitol Hill, in Collins' case a detour...
...reappeared last March as a Chicago cab driver and explained that he was attempting to "begin from the beginning" after years of alcoholism; of cancer of the pancreas, shortly after accepting a comeback position as administrative assistant to West Virginia Manufacturer (National Mattress Co.) James F. Edwards; in Barrington, Ill...
...Strikes Back. Meanwhile Vergennes secretly notified Shelburne that France would not support the American demand for fishing rights. Shelburne, sensing an opportunity to divide his enemies, discreetly apprised the Americans of what the French had said. Franklin was ill at the time and Adams happened to be in Amsterdam, so Jay got the message and he was furious. He had also discovered that Spain, with French compliance, intended in the peace treaty to limit the U.S. to a narrow strip of territory along the Atlantic coast and to take everything west of the Appalachians for itself. It was clear...