Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diem is an obsessive talker who can hypnotize a visitor with four and five hours of monologue. One recent visitor arrived at 4 p.m., rose to leave at 8, pleading a dinner engagement. "Call them and tell them you will be late," said Diem, and talked on for another two hours. He breakfasts on bouillon, rice and pickles. "I am no aristocrat. I eat like a peasant," he says...
...gathered an army of 80,000 Vietnamese to storm the governor's fort and set up her own kingdom, which lasted for two years. One of Trung Trac's army commanders was a stanch female who went into the fray nine months pregnant, gave birth on the battlefield, then rose to lead her troops in a futile last assault against the avenging Chinese. When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn. For nearly a thousand years, the Annamese armies terrorized neighboring Cambodia and Laos. (Laos' King Savang Vatthana still considers the attack on his country...
...finally lost contact with each other. Then, from Tampu-Tocco, which had flourished as the capital of the Quechua tribe, came a new King named Manco Capac. Around A.D. 1200, according to Quechua legend, he and his many brothers "set out toward the hill over which the sun rose" reached the ancient Amauta capital of Cuzco, settled there and began to rebuild the empire of his ancestors...
...Grissom's craft began to push against the top of the atmosphere, the Gs rose-to ten, then to a fearful 10.2-and communication dimmed a little, but never wholly stopped. Grissom reported clearly at 65,000 ft. that the Gs were much lower now. Then, with the capsule at 40,000 ft., the men on the Randolph and the choppers strained to catch their first glimpse of it. Automatically the small, tough drogue parachute opened at 21,000 ft., checking the capsule's falling speed. One minute later, the great, striped, red-and-white main parachute (with...
...much did the recession hurt? One indicator comes this week in a survey published by FORTUNE, which compared the 1960 gains of top U.S. and foreign companies. Sales of the 100 largest overseas industrial firms rose by 14.2% and profits by 10.7%. In sharp contrast, sales of the 500 leading U.S. industrial firms went up 3.7%, while profits dropped by 3%. The largest gains in sales were made by the big companies of Japan (average increase: 27.5%) West Germany (22.5%), Italy...