Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional Responsibility. What all the praise meant was that Dwight Eisenhower had arrived at the peak of one of the great American public careers and had succeeded as had few men before him in expressing the thoughts and hopes of a whole people. Whether he maintains that peak depends on the way the President can implement his ideas with specific deeds that can assure lasting peace to what he called a "shaken earth." And- although it was not especially noticeable last week in the hearings on the Administration's Middle Eastern proposals-there was also a heavy burden...
...population trends peered two decades ahead, and what it saw was a period of startling growth that could well spur a major business expansion. Back in 1946, when U.S. population stood at 140 million, experts predicted that it would expand to 153 million in 1960, reach an ultimate peak of 165 million in 1990 or thereabouts. In fact, the population passed the 165 million mark some time in 1955. By 1960, said the forecast, it will approach 180 million; by 1970, some 200 million...
Vermont--North Troy, Jay Peak, fair to good; Stowe, Mount Mansfield, four trails and slopes open and fair to good, Spruce Peak area closed; Wilmington, Mount Snow, no skiing upper, poor to fair lower, fair to good on lower Overbrook...
...South Africa's monopolistic De Beers syndicate. Retail diamond jewelry prices will rise about 10% this year, following 5% hike in 1956, and industrial diamonds will go even higher. Demand is outstripping supply largely because U.S., which buys two-thirds of world's diamonds, last year imported peak $159 million worth of gem diamonds...
...Vermont, Stowe's Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak rate from good to excellent. The novice area on Wilmington's Mt. Snow is called "perfect for skiing...