Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we are in an inflation-conscious mood, we might as well decide to be realistic about the current labor-management negotiations in the steel industry. As long as management is free to set its own prices, why should they bother to do anything else than follow the time-honored pattern of putting up a noisy but purely token fight? All they need do is haggle awhile and then give in. It is the public's money that they are bargaining with...
...Rodger Ward, who out lasted the favorite, skimmed by three major crashes and set a new record in the U.S.'s most exacting test of men and racing cars. See SPORT...
Able and Baker entered and left space at a portentous earthly moment. Just a day earlier Statesman John Foster Dulles had been buried on the date set, and broken, by Russia's Nikita Khrushchev as the deadline for the Western powers to desert West Berlin. Now the Big Four foreign ministers were returning to Geneva, where they had been trying to get off the diplomatic ground for three weeks. The trip of Able and Baker had meaning to the Geneva conference. A Russian dog named Laika had been the first living animal to orbit through space, and there...
Saluting Fire. Under a canopy near the grave, the mourners silently took their places. In the first row beside the family-Mrs. Dulles, two grown sons, a married daughter-sat the President of the U.S., his face set in sadness, and next to him his wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection...
With Democrats favored to win in the July 28 general election, Inouye's step-down prevented a party-splitting, potentially ruinous primary battle that had been threatening since a self-declared "team" of septuagenarians set their misting sights on the Senate seats. The team: Oren E. (for Ethelbirt) Long, 70, onetime (1951-53) Governor of Hawaii; William H. Heen, 76, Chinese-American ex-president of the territorial senate (1954-58). Said Bill Heen in asserting his right to a place in the Senate: "I have given long service to the Democratic Party in Hawaii, and I have many friends...