Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revenue rose $3,700,000; abroad it grew by $2,100,000. That brought total revenues to $60.7 million, which represents a 10.5% jump over the same period last year...
Throughout the Kennedy saga of success and tragedy, Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the family, has endured with an equanimity that has amazed outsiders and inspired her children. Last week, in the only interview she has given since the latest travail began, she told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey of her beliefs and expectations...
THIS is a good life," Rose Kennedy begins. "God does not send us a cross any heavier than we can bear." With the reputation of her only surviving son tarnished, with his presidential potential dimmed if not extinguished, Mrs. Kennedy weighs the newest cross and finds it tolerable: "How you cope is the important thing, not the events themselves." She continues: "Teddy has been so magnificent under a tremendous strain which people don't know about. He has been overly conscientious about his father and about me and about Ethel-in addition to his own obligations. He has been...
...Rose Kennedy has lost four of her nine children in violence: John and Robert assassinated, Joseph Jr. killed in World War II, Kathleen dead in a plane crash. Another daughter, Rosemary, is mentally retarded and Joseph Sr., now 80, has been incapacitated for eight years by a stroke. She reserves much of her time for her ailing husband, who is now no longer able to come downstairs...
...travel has traditionally reflected the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, since, as one air line executive puts it, "vacation dollars are expendable dollars." Inflation and the incipient economic slowdown have cut into travel for both business and pleasure. In the first six months of 1969, passenger travel rose 11% from the 1968 level, 4% less than anticipated. During June, six of the eleven trunk carriers reported significantly lower increases...