Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yamato, sent out with a handful of destroyers as the only blue-water resistance that the imperial Japanese fleet could muster when the U.S. Navy came slamming up the island ladder to Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945. So obviously sacrificial was Yamato's "last gasp" mission against Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet that the great ship was given only enough fuel for a one-way trip from Japan. The battle for Okinawa, at the homeland's very door, was the death struggle of Japan, and its capture was the largest, longest amphibious operation...
...both a priest and a psychologist, Father Raymond A. Roesch, 46, is a persuasive fellow. Last year he became president of the Roman Catholic Marist University of Dayton, which needs persuasion. Dayton is one of the biggest private colleges (6,296 students) in a state brimful of good ones, but its main products are piety and basketball. Some of its academic departments operate on budgets as low as $1,000 a year. Last week Father Roesch passed on some newly won presidential wisdom: U.S. foundations "bet on horses that have won before." Then he launched a real horse race...
...Economist's view raised the ire of Raymond Saulnier, chief economic adviser to the President, who wondered whether any "Government economists" feel as the Economist reported. He, for one, sees no recession in the near future. Said Saulnier: "Bear in mind that the U.S. economy is operating at a very high level, whether measured by employment, by production or by the aggregate of income payments. Furthermore, there are strong forces at work that favor further advances : the greater availability and lower cost of credit, high and rising incomes, a high level of retail sales, and-by no means...
...moneymaking, money-losing frenzy was started by a statement from Tel-Autograph's President Raymond E. Lee that his company had been told by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.: "For the first time message-rate telewriter service will be permitted over telephone lines on a local and long-range basis." "This means," stated Lee, "it is now possible to send a handwritten message instantaneously by telephone...
...first prize in a contest sponsored by the Renault company. Raymond Duncan, the monkish brother of the late dancer Isadora, gave him a one-man show at his Rue de Seine gallery. He was the subject of a TV film, and articles about him began cropping up in Belgium, West Germany, Denmark, Norway and Italy...