Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, took a flyer into the realm of psychological warfare and gave a Chicago audience his prescription for U.S. relations with oppressed millions behind the Iron Curtain. As authors of the greatest of all revolutions, Carney suggested, Americans are singularly well equipped to preach revolt. Asked the admiral: "Why can't we be the salesmen of human revolt, 'which demonstratively has produced freedom for the individual and . . . standards of life heretofore unknown...
...faintly lit West Berlin sidestreet, a man sat behind the wheel of a dark sedan, waiting. A pretty girl carrying two bottles of Coca Cola crossed the sidewalk, glanced back at the sedan before letting herself into the house at 11 Heilbronner Strasse. The heavy, wrought-iron door clashed behind her, and she started up the narrow stairs. Above her there was a sudden sound of thudding feet and labored breathing. At the top of the stairs, a man appeared carrying the limp body of an elderly, bald-headed man. Behind him was a man she knew well-43-year...
Died. William S. ("Pete") Newell, 75, shipbuilder and board chairman of the Bath (Me.) Iron Works Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Bath. During the shipbuilding slump of the '20s, Newell saved Bath's yards by rounding up fresh capital, later revolutionized the industry with the "sunken bathtub" method i.e., constructing ships in basins resembling drydocks from which they float out on completion...
...Schuman Plan will have its second birthday next August. In handling its six member nations' coal, iron ore and steel, it has, in large part, done away with some old nuisances such as customs, quotas and double prices, but its battle is far from finished: it is still fighting entrenched European cartelism, restrictionism, and protectionism. Monnet wants a U.S. loan -not a gift-for modernization, which he hopes will raise productivity, lower prices and stimulate European investment. Monnet had originally hoped for $500 million, but is reconciled to something around $100 million. Apart from the money, the loan will...
Then, to everyone's surprise, last-day jitters caught up with the veterans. Hogan and Snead got off to shaky starts. Patton, a formidable five strokes off the pace, caught fire. His crisp iron shots were carrying to the greens, his putts were running sure and true. On the 190-yd. sixth, he smacked an astonishing hole...