Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they faced some sharp heckling at rallies. "You're just a playboy playing at politics," sneered a pretty young woman when Businessman Nguyen Dinh Quat rose to speak. An old farmer at a Delta rally challenged Dai Viet Party Leader Ha Thuc Ky: "We hear you have two big villas and an American limousine." The other Ky, Premier and vice-presidential candidate on the government ticket with Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, ventured into hostile Hue, where he had put down a simmering, Buddhist-led revolt last year...
...North Viet Nam with new urgency last week. They took off on a total of 1,102 bombing missions. And as the numbers mounted, so did the roster of lost planes. Fifteen were shot down, two over Red China. The total number of U.S. aircraft destroyed during the war rose...
...Suit. Like almost everything else aboard during the January holocaust, the Gemini space suits worn by the astronauts burned, as interior temperatures rose to 1,500° F. To withstand such heat, the nylon outer covering of the Apollo suit has been replaced by Beta cloth-an advanced form of glass fiber produced by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Backing up the new fabric are 14 layers of fire-resistant material. Even if they were caught in an on-board inferno, the Apollo astronauts would have several minutes of protection while wearing the new suit. Big gest problem posed...
Bonanza is the strongest of the three. Flying popular routes in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah, it retired its last piston plane in 1960, has attracted passengers with imaginative fare plans. Last year passenger totals rose 26.8%, to 848,000, and the company earned $530,000 on revenues of $18 million. Much credit goes to Henry who, before going to Pacific last July, had been second-in-command to Founder-Presdent Edmund Converse, 60. Converse will be vice chairman of the merged airline, and Henry its president...
...result, U.S. public support for the U.N. rose sharply: from 50% of the people in 1953, according to one poll, to 74% in 1955. Lodge was a master dramatist. After the U-2 flap in 1960, for example, he memorably countered holier-than-thou Soviet rhetoric by revealing that the Russians had bugged the U.S. embassy in Moscow-and displaying the Great Seal that had contained...