Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warnings were newsworthy but the game that prompted them is hardly new. Commodities traders wryly note, for instance, that the Old Testament's Joseph was the first man to corner the grain market. After all, when the seven fat years ended in Egypt and the seven lean years began, wasn't Joseph the only man with grain stacked in his barns? Seventeenth century Holland experienced one of the first of the futures markets. Dutchmen became so infatuated with tulips from Asia Minor that they stopped planting and began trading them. Prices rose to the point where one merchant...
Another was that the conference's willingness to come to the Congo gave a boost to its genial host, President Joseph Désiré Mobutu, whose prestige has lately fallen both at home and abroad...
...black African countries had not supported their demand for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. But, surprisingly, more heads of state showed up than at last year's meeting in Addis Ababa, among them Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Ghana's Joseph Ankrah and Uganda's Milton Obote...
...highlights of Joseph Pulitzer's life are well known: his rags-to-riches rise to become publisher of two leading U.S. dailies, his championing of the underdog, his epic battles with William Randolph Hearst, his efforts to upgrade journalism by establishing the Pulitzer prizes. Now, for the first time, a biographer has filled in the gaps between the accomplishments in vast detail. The evidence mounts up in William Swanberg's Piditzer* that the famed publisher was a far more erratic and self-tortured personality than is generally realized...
...Married. Joseph S. Clark, 65, two-term Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania; and Iris Cole Richey, 46, onetime PR woman; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington, two weeks after Clark was divorced by Noel Hall Clark, his wife of 32 years...