Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluefish just wouldn't strike. Vacationer Dwight Eisenhower, ensconced in a deck chair on the low stern of the Navy crash boat Queen Six, trolled for eight hours one day last week southwest of Newport. R.I. A novice in the sedentary sport of deep-sea fishing, he obviously missed the dry-fly casting in the frowned-upon (because of his heart) altitudes of Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what...
...furiously shifting positions as they detected the new trends (TIME, Aug. 25). Last week Pollster George Gallup reported that a tide shift had come: for the first time since 1956, Republican fortunes are on the rise. The percentage of voters who want a Republican Congress has shifted from a low of 42% last May to 44%. The shift is only a bare 2%, and it shows that the Republicans have a long way to go. But it marks unmistakably the public awareness that conditions have changed, promises that the 1958 election can still be hard fought to a close finish...
Point of Departure. Arriving on the waterfront, Brown jumped from his car, plunged through the low-hanging fog to the point where hundreds of workmen were converging on the Star & Crescent ferry slip, ready to ride to their Navy shipyard jobs on North Island. "I'm Pat Brown!" cried Candidate Brown, reaching for workmen's hands as if they were gold nuggets. One, two, three workmen hurried past, heads down, clutching their lunch boxes, leaving Pat's hand dangling in midair. A ferry attendant came up, told...
Most international financial experts believe quotas on both the World Bank and the IMF should be raised. But there is skepticism over Ike's third point, the International Development Association. The association would make long-term low-interest loans for projects the bank did not want to back because the borrower might not be able to pay back the money in hard currency. The IDA would accept repayments in soft currency...
...strange as any medieval unicorn or griffin is the life and personality of Terence Hanbury ("Tim") White. He lives on the pebble-sized English Channel isle of Alderney (pop. 1,600), famed for its low taxes, cheap liquor, puffins and stormy petrels. Stormy Petrel White arrived ten years ago announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from Britain, and ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness...