Word: mer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Jackie told the Secret Service man of her pains, he sprinted for the farmhouse, phoned the Kennedy sum mer home on Squaw Island and asked that someone summon Dr. John Walsh, Jackie's obstetrician, who was "vacationing" on the Cape, while actually on stand-by in the event that Jackie's time might come ahead of schedule. Then the Secret Service man rounded up Caroline and John, took them to the car and sped off for Squaw Island, eight miles away...
Today the most formidable and in some ways the bravest woman in South Viet Nam wears tapered satin trousers and a torso-hugging ao-dai, split from ankle to waist, and rides to meet her foes in a chauffeur-driven black Mer cedes. Instead of swords, her weapons are bottomless energy, a devastating charm, a tough, relentless mind, an acid tongue, a militant Roman Catholi cism ? and, most important, the power of the family into which she married. She is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and closest brain-truster...
...segregationist Governor George Wallace sent 600 men to reinforce Bull Connor's weary cops. And Martin Luther King appeared before his followers to say: "We will turn America upside down in order that it turn right side up." Birmingham had already been upset-and all but overturned. Downtown mer chants, plagued for more than a year by a Negro boycott that was 90% effective, saw their profits plunging even more because of the demonstrations. Birmingham's racist reputation had long been bad enough to frighten away potential industry; rioting by King's forces would further scar...
...Even the biggest and most reputable of brokerage houses were at times extremely careless. Proceeding on only scant and unchecked information, branches of Mer rill Lynch and Shearson, Hammill & Co., among others, pushed some high-flying glamour issues that soon collapsed. Among them: Aquafilter, U.S. Automatic Merchandising Corp...
...York, inevitably, furnishes a fascinating example. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, now conceding that he made "a beaut of a mistake" last sum mer in the midst of his campaign for re-election in overestimating New York tax revenues by some $200 million for the coming fiscal year, nevertheless claims that he will observe his campaign pledge not to raise taxes. He is asking for a $48 million increase in state auto license fees and a $57 million hike in liquor license charges. Without a smile, he insists that these are not tax increases. Irate motorists, many of whose auto tabs...