Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comeback. Japan did not lift itself by its own sandal straps. Since the war U.S. aid has averaged $178 million a year; a serious business recession was eased by the 1950 Korean war, which poured vast sums into the Japanese economy; war reparations in kind to Southeast Asia have kept factories humming; and the very high rate of capital investment is possible since Japan spends little on armaments. But major credit belongs to the Japanese themselves. In a typically Japanese swing from one extreme to another, they shook off the apathy of defeat, and with skill, hard work and enthusiasm...
...Monster. The heavy boosters are horsed around by ordinary cranes, but these are being replaced by a monstrous device called a transrector. Built by Hufford Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., it weighs 121,000 Ibs., costs $750,000. With its two engines and its five-man crew, it can lift a booster from deep underground and brandish it like a cigar. Its massive but sensitive arms can pin an egg down so delicately that the shell is not cracked, yet so firmly that the egg cannot be removed without breaking...
...Oxford chaplaincy. As a writer, he deplored what he referred to as two decades of potboiling. (Among other works he had churned out six popular detective novels to help foot the port-and-banana bills.) A glowing young convert, Lady Acton, and her husband gave Knox a psychological lift by offering him a writing retreat and private-chaplain status at their country estate, Aldenham. With this haven in view, Knox secured the English hierarchy's commission to translate the New Testament. From the beginning Knox assumed that he was to redo the entire Bible. This led to misunderstandings with...
...surrendered but the remaining hard core will be hard to flush out of the dense jungle. With the help of the French, who will remain as advisers at least until mid-1960, Ahidjo is drafting a new constitution and promises new elections in March. But he stubbornly refuses to lift the ban against Moumie's party...
...keep abreast of matters, she cultivated a close contact with tall (6 ft. 4½ in.), young (35) Executive Vice President David Wallace, a Bob Young whiz kid. Anita Young urged Chairman Kirby, who is also president, to lift Wallace to the presidency. Instead, after Kirby heard that Wallace was huddling with Boston Industrialist Abraham Sonnabend, who wanted to take over Alleghany (TIME, Nov. 23), Kirby fired Wallace. Anita Young fumed, pointedly refrained from endorsing Kirby against Sonnabend...