Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant and a thrilling World Series victory over the New York Yankees. Then he marched into Owner Gussie Busch's office when it was all over and told him where to put the $35,000 contract Gussie belatedly offered to renew. Now Johnny is getting $45,000 to boss the Yanks, and he stands a good chance of becoming the first manager in baseball history to win successive pennants in two different leagues...
...Martin Luther King Jr. was abed with a bad cold. Sheriff Jim Clark of Selma, Ala., was down with "exhaustion." But both men arose last week to renew their bitter civil rights struggle...
...population is nonwhite. But in politics no issue stays dormant. Gordon Walker found things complicated by the fact that last November-after reading a Gallup poll showing 68% of all Britons to be in favor of some curbs on immigration-Wilson's Labor government voted to renew the same immigration law it had fought so vigorously in 1961. Kicking off the Tories' campaign against Gordon Walker in Leyton, former Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod chortled, "I welcome, though I despise, Mr. Gordon Walker's abandonment of a cause he advocated so fiercely such a short time...
Gray Mackenzie padlocked its doors, and the poisoning cases began to stagger in as sales of after-shave lotions and cologne soared tenfold. Several dozen British and American petroleum engineers served notice that they would not renew their employment contracts if Kuwait stayed dry. Several influential Kuwaitis have applied to remote countries for posts as honorary consuls, hoping thereby to qualify for diplomatic liquor privileges. Many of the thirsty began flocking to Basra in Iraq, 100 miles from Kuwait City. Their pilgrimage has also produced agitation for repeal of the law from their weekend widows left behind. They fear that...
...louder and more independent voice abroad, and thus, even more than his predecessors, he will be angling to bring back from Washington an omiyage-the gift that, according to Japanese custom, a host presents an honored guest. During two scheduled huddles with President Johnson, the Japanese leader will probably renew his country's request for more administrative say-so on Okinawa, the onetime Japanese possession that the U.S. military still occupies. Sato may also protest U.S. restrictions on Japanese textiles and renew Japan's long-pending -and so far unsuccessful-request for air rights over...