Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restive French National Assembly, the General was loading a weapon specifically denied to him under emergency rule but normally available under the constitution: the President's right to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections. To appease a vociferous farm lobby, De Gaulle allowed the winter price of milk...
...clear that the world into which the survivors emerged would lack certain valuable things. Most large mammals are known to be just as radiation-sensitive as humans, so domestic animals that survived the bombs would soon die from eating contaminated forage. Human survivors would have to go without meat, milk and other accustomed protein foods. Forest lovers to the end, the Emory biologists made one positive recommendation. Pine seeds, they said, should be stockpiled in shelters so that the earth's pine forests can eventually be restored...
...father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered his, then found himself virtually evicted. A correspondents' dinner scene? Real-life correspondents were glad to oblige. Only when Preminger asked for the use of the U.S. Senate chamber was he balked; the rules forbade...
...both studied at Harvard. ''For us. the transition was easy.'' says Dr. Canet. ''We simply returned to an area we knew.'' But in New Orleans, where 400 refugees are clustered, an architect works in a shipyard, a former gentleman farmer loads milk cans in a dairy, and a lawyer is a $50-a-week warehouse checker. "I have to go on," the lawyer says. "With a family of four, I cannot slip...
...hills. Although the school is a recognizable model for Pencey Prep, the neurosis farm in Catcher, young Salinger?who talked of grabbing the big loot as a Hollywood writer-producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach local beer taps, but he is sure that Salinger never went AWOL, as Holden did, and practiced only accepted sorts of nonconformism...