Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods gave life to the narrow green ribbon across the deserts and supported the great cities at the delta...
...returned to his grass-roots birthplace at West Branch, Iowa (pop. 1,053), to dedicate his own library, the fourth presidential library created by Congress (others: Roosevelt's at Hyde Park, N.Y., Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kans.). But on this occasion, an ex-President did more than ribbon-snip. Speaking "as the shadows gather around me," Hoover took the United Nations to task. The world organization was racked by the "disintegrating forces" of the Communist nations, said the grand old Republican, and so he proposed a standby "Council of Free Nations" that would step in, with military force...
...Call Me Meester." From the moment Kennedy touched down at the mile-high capital, a city once occupied by U.S. troops in the war of 1846-48, Mexicans made it clear that their feelings were good neighborly. A solid ribbon of people lined every inch of the seven-mile ride into town, packing the curbside 20-deep, clinging to billboards, perched on rooftops, statues and lampposts. Mexico City's cops estimated the throng at 1,500,000. There had obviously been plenty of government organization to get out the crowds, but such enthusiasm could not be feigned, or done...
...social background and schooling largely determine whether he can hope to reach the top in business. In France, an executive who aspires to head a major corporation must not only be a man of broad general culture but should also hold an engineering degree from Paris' blue-ribbon Ecole Polytechnique. (Of 15 top French corporation chiefs interviewed by Granick, eight were Polytechnique graduates.) Ideally, a French executive should "parachute" into business only after several years in the higher ranks of the civil service-partly because this ensures that he will have close contacts among the government officials...
State Fair. This remake of a remake of a remake may not win any Oscars, but durned if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...