Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir, where a U.N. cease-fire line keeps an uneasy truce between the two countries. India has ignored U.N. resolutions calling for a self-determination plebiscite in Kashmir because it fears that the predominantly Moslem province would opt to go with Moslem Pakistan. When Ireland (with U.S. backing) introduced another mild resolution in the Security Council to bring the two countries together in negotiations, the measure was promptly killed by the Russians, with whom India is currently dickering for two squadrons of MIG-21 jet fighter planes...
...Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
Died. John Ireland. 82, gentle, white-haired English composer of songs, chamber, piano and organ music, anthems and orchestral pieces, who put poems to music (his most popular: from Masefield's Sea-Fever) but shied away from longer works because "you must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony"; after a long illness; in Washington, Sussex, England...
...hectic week, the paper value of the 1,545 stocks listed on the Big Board plunged by $30 billion - which is more than the combined gross national product of Australia, Sweden and Ireland. At week's end mighty IBM had fallen from its October high of 607 to 398∧ "X" marked the spot on the ticker tape where U.S. Steel was down from last year's high of 9¼ to 52¼. As wave after selling wave buffeted blue chips and glamour stocks indiscriminately, the Dow-Jones index of 30 key stocks tumbled almost 39 points...
...only company that ever did better was Ford back in 1921, when the redoubtable model T took better than 60% of the market.) The net result: G.M.'s first-quarter profits this year hit an all time high of $374 million-roughly equivalent to the national income of Ireland...