Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pigs veteran who spent 20 hard months in Havana and Isle of Pines prisons, I was most interested in your brilliant Essay [July 30]. The main reason for our defeat was Kennedy's indecisiveness under pressure, a longtime ill in U.S. foreign policy arising from the country's lack of long-term planning and definition of ultimate objectives. Unfortunately, our enemies do not have this lack of continuity in foreign policy. They have defined their goal quite clearly: to conquer the world by any means at their disposal. FRANCISCO JOSE DE VARONA Gainesville...
...Ill lay: New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
Coffee prices have risen a bit in the past few months, but with a record crop forecast for next season, traders predict that the recovery will be short-lived. Though it can ill afford the expense, the Brazilian government expects to buy up half of this year's crop in an effort to prop prices. Colombia, dependent on coffee for 70% of its exports, has resorted to bartering for goods that it lacks the dollars...
...days later, when Johnson flew to Bloomington, Ill., for Stevenson's burial, Goldberg was invited to ride along with the presidential party on Air Force One. Again, during the flight from Washington and back, the two talked at length about the U.N. job. Again, the President did not ask the obvious question, but Goldberg got the drift. "I was very troubled," he said later. That night Johnson phoned the Justice at George Washington University Hospital, where Goldberg was visiting his ailing mother-in-law, and finally made the offer. Goldberg hedged, told the President that he did not think...
Reggie Maudling, Sir Alec's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a relaxed Saint Bernard of a man. Ted Heath, an energetic "technocrat," made his reputation as Britain's hard-nosed representative in the ill-fated Common Market negotiations. Victory by either will represent a sharp break in the Old Etonian tradition of the gifted amateur in Tory politics. Indeed, Sir Alec may well be the last of that line. If so, the last of the amateurs had made a thoroughly professional decision last week. With parliamentary recess looming, the new top Tory will have ample time to marshal...