Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they appear in the Congressional Record, grants Senators a unique immunity from legal action for what they say in committee or on the floor. Thus last week when two Senators proposed that members lay their financial affairs naked before the world, the club's leading antiquary, Everett Dirksen, rose up in Dickensian outrage...
...specific reforms continued to multiply. More than 10,000 students crowded into the massive Prague Congress Hall, where they questioned party leaders and demanded everything from a neutral foreign policy to removal of the red star from the nation's coat of arms. When Forestry Minister Josef Smrkovsky rose to ask the students why they had omitted a pledge of friendship to the Soviet Union from one of their resolutions, the hall echoed with jeers and whistles...
Cavernous Congress Hall in down town Warsaw shook with chants and cheers. As the speaker strode to the podium, TV lights glared down upon his balding head and visibly strained face. Then some 3,000 stalwarts of Poland's Communist Party rose to their feet and sang: "May he live 100 years." All in all, it could have been a national birthday party for Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka-but instead it was the tensest moment in his nearly dozen years in power. After eleven days of nationwide student demonstrations, Gomulka, 63, finally spoke out in an effort to restore...
...establish a new single-day trading record. Where gold could be bought directly, mob scenes erupted and the price soared. Ten times the usual number of buyers jammed the gold pit in the cellar of the Paris Bourse, and fist fights broke out as the price on one day rose to $44.36 an ounce v. the official price of $35. In Hong Kong, fran tic trading drove the price up to $40.71, and around the world investors and banks bought gold certificates and gold stocks. Many refused to accept the U.S. dollar in payment...
Died. Harold L. Bache, 73, chairman and chief executive officer since 1945 of Bache & Co., Inc., world's second largest brokerage house (after Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Bache started out in 1914 running trade messages for $1 a day, rose through the cotton and wheat pits to the top of his granduncle's 89-year-old brokerage house, which he expanded from 48 to 124 branches and turned into the top dealer in both commodities and mutual funds...