Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal mining center of Stalino (pop. 800,000) became Donetsk; the main street of Minsk switched from Stalin Prospect to Leninsky Prospect. So it went down the line of cities, towns, villages, regions, streets, squares, and out into the country to include one bay, one canal and one mountain peak. The mayor of Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding a new one; it was unthinkable that...
...United Arab Republic, which opened Nasser's eyes to the number of "reactionary elements" surviving at home, he dissolved the National Assembly and his National Union Party, announced a complicated triple pyramid of electoral arrangements in advance of "free" elections, to be held perhaps next year. At the peak of the pyramid will be a single list of carefully screened candidates who "believe passionately" in Nasser's brand of socialism...
...that sent the stock market charging up. On one day alone, a record 1,360 issues were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, well over 6,000,000 shares changed hands, and the Dow-Jones industrials index climbed 9.14 points to 723.74-just a shade below its alltime peak of 726.53 in early September. At week's end, still on the rise, the market...
...many of the sections that make up what we call TIME'S "back of the book," this is the peak season. Broadway, after the summer slackness, is alight with almost nightly openings. Book publishers have their fall lists, art galleries and museums their big shows. For Music Editor Richard Murphy, it is a busied round of operatic debuts, music recitals by the up and coming, and major concerts by the established artists. One of the highlights of the season is Artur Rubinstein's remarkable ten-concert series in Manhattan, and reporting on it gives Murphy a rare opportunity...
Ishi belonged to a small tribe, the Yahi, who lived in the scrub-tangled foothills of volcanic Lassen Peak, high in the Cascade Range. Early Spanish and Mexican settlers had little contact with the Yahi, but the gold seekers who flooded California in the 1850s hunted them down like wild animals. The Yahi had no guns; they fought their pathetic best with stone-tipped spears and arrows, but by 1872 they were believed extinct. A dozen years later, ranchers in the foothills began to miss occasional calves and sheep, and sometimes caches of food were pilfered from mountain cabins. Rumors...