Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plush conference room at the International Motel at J.F.K. Airport last March, and again in a second floor White House meeting room in late June, high ranking members of the Johnson Administration debated some of their "moderate" student critics...
...cavernous, thickly carpeted room around a U-shaped table configuration on the unusually warm afternoon of March...
...political Buddhists were on the march again in South Viet Nam. Snaking in a two-mile procession through Saigon, militant Thich Tri Quang and some 700 saffron-and-grey-robed monks and nuns, their little paper fans fluttering like butterflies in the noonday sun, trekked to the Presidential Palace. It was Tri Quang's first head-on attack on the South Vietnamese government since Premier Nguyen Cao Ky put down the Buddhist insurrection in Danang and Hué in the spring of 1966. Tri Quang lost that round, and this time his chances seemed even slimmer. Then...
Delegates swept that squabble under the rug by calling for a report on rules changes next March. Meanwhile, they proceeded with their annual meeting's more pleasant activities: serious private talk well moistened at lunches, cocktail bashes and elegant dinners. To provide a suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with...
...options, the opposite of calls, entice bears who figure that the price of a stock will fall. Puts give the purchaser the right to sell 100 shares of stock at a set price at a future date. Last March, Manhattan's Thomas, Haab & Botts, one of the largest put-and-call dealers, sold a put option on Fairchild Camera for $1,750. It permitted the buyer to sell 100 shares of Fairchild stock at $119 a share any time before Sept. 26. By last week, that stock had dropped to $92, enabling the put holder to buy the stock...