Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the moment last July when Chicago Businessman Charles Harting Percy, 44, announced that he would try for the Illinois Republican gubernatorial nomination, he ran as if he were pursued by a pack of bright young men and an angry board of directors. Years of high-speed climbing in corporate life had conditioned him well. At 23 he was a board member of Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co., at 29 he was president, at 41 board chairman. As it turned out, Chuck Percy's pace was well suited to politics too. Last week...
...Kenneth Ferrari, 17, and two friends, Robert Farrell, 17, and Anthony D'Aiuto, 16, stopped in for a moment at Kenneth's home in Wyandanch, L.I., one evening and were told that Kenneth's father had just had a heart attack. Panicked by his own sudden grief, Kenneth dashed out of the house-his two friends at his heels, trying to give consolation. All three sprinted blindly into the street. They were all hit by a car, and died there in the road...
...moment at least, it seemed that Khrushchev was not pushing for the ultimate break; he remarked that Moscow would "always leave an opportunity for rapprochement and understanding." From Peking came birthday greetings signed by Mao and other Chinese leaders, expressing the hope that the split was "only temporary." Yet almost in the same breath, the Peking press called Khrushchev a traitor, "a dragon who changes his colors," and "even more stupid than the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek...
...tide of most men's lives begins to turn after 75 years. And though their vital energies are not yet sapped, three men who reached that mark last week could be pardoned if they paused for a moment to consider their own three quarters of a century...
What they saw was nothing to party about. Jack Lemmon, master of ceremonies, told cardboard jokes and looked somewhat cardboard himself in his rented tails. The only funny moment in the 140-minute show came when Sammy Davis Jr., as presenter of some minor award, was handed the wrong envelope. "Wait till the N.A.A.C.P. hears about this!" he said somewhat obscurely, drawing a sizable laugh...