Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Robert Daniel Murphy eased his 6 ft. 2 in. gratefully into a seat in Columbine III. Turning to his traveling companion, Murphy began talking quietly, steadily of the historic trip just ending; rushed to the Middle East 29 days before, Murphy had traveled 18,575 miles, visited nine Middle East and European nations, in Lebanon alone met 45 times with government and rebel leaders. When Diplomat Murphy finished talking, his friend on the Columbine leaned toward him. "Bob," said the President of the U.S., returning to Washington after his United Nations speech, "you did a wonderful...
Discontent with the past, as much as concern for the future, underlay France's passive acceptance of De Gaulle's severe formulas. Last week the special parliamentary commission meekly approved De Gaulle's proposed new constitution by a vote of 30-0 (with nine abstentions and absences), even though it spelled the end of parliamentary ascendancy...
...remembers earth distance and direction traveled from a known starting point. One of the best systems was developed by North American Aviation, Inc. for the Navaho missile. The Navaho was scrapped, but last February the Navy ordered a Navaho guidance system installed in Nautilus. It was aboard the sub nine weeks later-and it seems likely to change marine navigation forever...
...only the big names that carried the Braves to the top last year. Added this year were four strong-armed young pitchers who were major-league unknowns when the season started. Last week Milwaukee's four lads were in fine form as the Braves won seven of nine, moved seven games in front of the pesky Pittsburgh Pirates. 7½ ahead of the sagging San Francisco Giants...
Studebaker President Harold E. Churchill asked Sonnabend to come in and work fast because Studebaker's five-year carryover period for tax losses starts running out next year. Last week Sonnabend reported that he had nine prospective bridegrooms with combined earnings before taxes of $30 million a year-more than enough, he said, to offset Studebaker's past losses. Sonnabend was eager to get on with the wedding, but Churchill wanted to hold up formal publication of the banns until the company's creditors have approved plans to recapitalize, make the debt load more manageable...