Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a glance at the bronze-faced clock above the presiding officer's chair, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield rose in the well of the Senate Chamber. His lined, angular face was even more solemn than usual. His words came slowly and with feeling...
Through special courses and exams, Mike finally made up his high school credits in 1933, received his B.A. at the same time. He began teaching history a«t Montana, never rose higher than assistant professor. "He was not fiery as a lecturer," recalls a colleague, but the students liked him, and those who sat in on his Latin America and Far East history courses still form a large, devoted and politically profitable claque...
Potted Chicken? As radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired...
...Sterile agitation," sniffed Charles de Gaulle when tiny Gabon's 400-man army rose against its President last month. The coup, De Gaulle decided, had no popular support, so into the mineral-rich West African republic roared hundreds of tough French paratroopers. Overnight, De Gaulle's old, autocratic friend Leon Mba was back in power. It looked so simple, but. by last week Charles de Gaulle had learned something even simpler: nothing cures an African nation of political sterility like high-handed intervention...
Climbing as smoothly as a U2, the stock market has risen more than 50% from its lows of mid-1962, has advanced 7% since Jan. 1. Last week, for the first time in 41 years, the Dow-Jones industrial average set a new record on every trading day. It rose 10.19 points in all, closing the week at 816.22. Pleasantly surprised that Wall Street's bull had crossed the 800 hurdle without even pausing for breath, many brokers are beginning to talk of a market at 900 before year's end-though they expect stocks to fall back...