Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Things. At the Pentagon, General Earle G. ("Bus") Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, picked up a direct line to the War Room at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the supreme U.S. commander in the Pacific (TIME cover, Aug. 14). Sharp was discussing the attack with his aides when the amber light on his dialless gold telephone flashed on. Wheeler wanted to make sure that the Seventh Fleet was ready. Sharp assured him that...
...Carl Albert and the Johnson program was most enlightening. It points up, however indirectly, that the President intends to follow the path of his predecessors in worrying about the domestic areas only and ignoring or playing down the foreign situations. Such attitudes in the past failed to prevent Hitlerism, Pearl Harbor and Korea. Is history going to repeat itself...
...Pearl Bailey makes a scrupulously honest presentation of Rainier Ale. "I've been drinking Rainier Ale for as long as I can remember," she sings, and it is a true note, a blue note, for she adds, "which is the day before yesterday." Rosemary Clooney recently sprayed Florient here and there and sang somewhat unconvincingly about its capacity to deodorize an entire dwelling. Beautiful Arlene Dahl was paid $80,000-not nearly enough-to do a commercial in which she is cast as a beauty consultant to the Toni Co.; but with Arlene Dahl on the screen...
...first, second, third, and fourth marshals are, in that order: David H. Abramson of Eliot House and Jamaica Estates, N.Y.; John S. F. Daly of 142 Pearl St. Cambridge and Gladstone, Ill.; Ricardo A. Wilson of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Jerry Mechling of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio...
...nation had pulled out. There were those who thought it good riddance. But others pleaded earnestly with the stubborn leader to think twice. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato, for instance, is said to have sent Sukarno a personal letter recalling the tragic path Japan followed, which led to Pearl Harbor, after it had been the first to abandon the League of Nations...