Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watering the Gravy. Yet neither cynics quick to ascribe political motives to Kennedy's one-man investigation nor the little girl who thrust a scrawled note into his hand pleading "Bobby, please run for President" could soften the facts of east Kentucky's poverty or blot out the reality of Appalachia's misery statistics. Some 5,000 of Wolfe County's 6,500 people exist beneath the poverty line, able to afford little more than a dime for each meal; federal food stamps account for half or more of the mountaineers' victuals. "Whenever...
...power in 1762, she began a massive rebuilding program. To find enough officers to command her new ships, Catherine collected foreign naval men almost as fast as she collected lovers. Among them was the American Revolutionary War hero, John Paul Jones, who, despite his bravery and gift for quick phrasemaking, had risen no higher than captain in the U.S. Navy. In return for an admiral's rank, Jones took command of a Russian sailing fleet composed of four battleships, eight frigates and assorted smaller craft that helped chase the Turks from the Black Sea. Unfortunately, his morals were nearly...
Defusing Emotions. The causes are inevitably complex and often irrational. Officials in some of the tense cities are simply trying to defuse emotions. Many superintendents find that one quick way to cool matters is to offer courses in Negro history or stress Negro cultural contributions in standard courses. In Philadelphia, some Negroes demanded that students be permitted to wear African dress to class; the administrators agreed, and that helped soothe the situation, although only three students actually donned the garb. Philadelphia now pays Negro youngsters and adult Negro leaders to attend suburban retreats, where they sound off their grievances...
Despite Lockheed's quick start, McDonnell Douglas is grabbing the first-and possibly decisive-foothold in the 1,000-plane airbus market partly because U.S. airlines are still smarting over the performance of Lockheed's last commercial transport, the turboprop Electra. In 1959, Electras began coming apart in midair; Lockheed spent $25 million strengthening structural weaknesses, and the plane has performed splendidly ever since. With the American order in hand, Douglas may have a bargaining edge, too, with airlines such as United, Eastern and Delta, which are also shopping...
Responsible for Taiwan's getting into the steel business is Minister of Economic Affairs K. T. Li, 58, who is quick to play down his role. "The market dictates everything," says Li. "I dictate nothing." But Li's part in the island's economic emergence is well known. Educated at Cambridge University, he interrupted his graduate physics studies in 1937 and returned to China to help in the war effort. Li became an industrial planner, ran an iron-and-steel works, then set up a shipyard in Shanghai before moving to Taiwan when the mainland fell...