Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably the most accurate explanation of why they were there was offered last week by an Air Force colonel in Saigon: "We looked around for the first things we could lay hands on, and there was a bunch of stockpiled B-26s and T-28s, so we shipped them off to Viet Nam. After that, it was a combination of necessity to make do with what you've got and Pentagon lethargy...
...lay: Violinist David Oistralkh, 55, in a Leningrad hospital after a heart attack; Authoress Dorothy Parker, 70, in her Manhattan home, recuperating from a fractured shoulder; Columnist Walter Winchell, 67, treated and released in Los Angeles after suffering a whiplash neck injury when his car was hit from behind...
...West End, which last January asked him to return as its rabbi. Dr. Israel Brodie, the ailing Orthodox chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth, refused to approve the appointment. Eventually the United Synagogue Council, composed exclusively of laymen, voted to expel the New West End board of lay managers...
...fewer cars this year than last. Last week AMC announced a 17% drop in earnings for its first fiscal half at a time when the other car makers are setting new profit records. So many Ramblers remain unsold that cigar-chomping President Roy Abernethy, 57, next week will lay off 7,800 workers, probably will not recall them until new-model production begins in August...
...Geneva last week for the long-awaited trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)- labeled the Kennedy Round because the late President gave them impetus -the air was heavy with torpor and reluctance. After more than a year of preliminary parleys that tried to lay a groundwork on which the conference could proceed, all the delegates had really agreed on was that they still have monumental disagreements to over come. GATT Executive Secretary Eric Wyndham White, whose job was to open the conference with a ringing keynote, had to admit the seriousness of the fail...