Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close to the international date line that keeps Thursday from being Friday, an American submersible is missing. Shrouded in a fog bank, the S.S. Robert Louis Stevenson started on her first-and presumably last-underwater cruise on Aug. 10. Ever since, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard have kept five search vessels and a gaggle of aircraft looking for the R.L.S. - to the intense interest of Russian trawlers in the area...
...sizable numbers of Catholics. All told, they represented a potential block of over 2,000,000 votes. The fact that Thieu's winning total was only 1,600,000 votes virtually nullified any claims of fraud, even though Dzu and six other civilian candidates kept their promise and served notice last week that they will ask the watchdog Constituent Assembly to invalidate the elections and order new ones. Thieu's winning margin was so eminently credible that the Assembly is unlikely to take any heed...
...bourgeois manager never did swing with the zesty, remarkably creative Beatles. A slightly dandified bachelor, he kept pretty much to himself; he said recently that he had made five LSD trips in one 14-month period. Asked once what he feared most in life, he replied: "Loneliness. I hope I'll never be lonely, although actually, one inflicts loneliness on oneself...
...asked why. The answer was that years ago somebody talked and got fired." At dinner with one European executive, Jean Bourgeois, Geneen made it clear that he expected his people to start talking. Says Bourgeois: "I was drawing diagrams all over the tablecloth for an hour. He just kept on asking questions...
...zeal, Geneen recognizes that prudence dictates a relatively low-keyed overseas operation. Because of foreign sensitivity to American business domination, for example, the company has kept its U.S. connections almost invisible; in Europe, only 61 of the company's 125,000 employees are American. To lubricate its contacts with foreign governments, ITT has lured onto its staff such prominent native sons as former U.N. Secretary-General Trygve...