Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek: ri(j>d' OUTCOS ecrTTjre TeflrjTrores ^Ore ve(3pol ("Why stand ye here astounded, like fauns?"). Thus encouraged. Rockefeller's crew swept the Seine. For the latest news on James Stillman Rockefeller, who regretfully notes, after all these years, that he does not speak Greek, see BUSINESS...
...burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head of a family, and there's nothing...
...Apple Tree. But Brown reckoned without another Governor with national ambitions: Colorado's McNichols, 45, who is, like Brown (and Washington's Rosellini), a Roman Catholic. In the minds of some McNichols followers, the presidential candidacy of Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy has so focused attention on the Catholic issue that the Democratic Party, if only to avoid the appearance of religious bias, will at least have to nominate a Catholic for Vice President. And if Kennedy and Brown cut each other up too much in the preconvention campaigning, then the call might go to still another Catholic...
...single sheet, shaped it to fit the curve of the hull. Day after day, Deir, his face stubbled and grimy, his clothes soaked with oil, drove himself and the men unmercifully. Summer warmed the sea, the sun blistered their backs, and threats of heavy weather hung over them like a time bomb...
Fagade & Reality. Like the other guests of honor who had flocked into Peking from 87 countries, Nikita Khrushchev could scarcely fail to be impressed by Peking's display of might and by the fireworks, the glittering banquets and the gleaming new buildings that Red China's masters had conjured up to mark their tenth year in power. But behind the gala façade lay a grim reality: the world's biggest and brashest Communist state was stumbling into the most critical year of its existence. Says a Western diplomat stationed in Peking: "The place...