Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Singular Victory. Dubček (pronounced Doob-chQck), who is tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and blond, becomes the youngest national party chief in Eastern Europe. Largely educated in the Soviet Union, to which his father had migrated a few years after a brief, unhappy stay in the U.S., Dubček was an anti-Nazi partisan during World War II. Since Czechs and ethnic balances are still essential in Czechoslovakia's ruling circles, Premier Jozef Lenárt, another Slovak, will probably be pushed aside for Chief Economic Planner Oldřich Cernik, 44, a Czech...
Otis Redding was often introduced to black audiences as "our president." For a man of 25 this was a singular honor, but one which he no doubt deserved. His appearances had a quality somewhat different from those of other singers. The anticipation in the audience was like the anticipation of a crowd awaiting the appearance of the President. He was very good in person, if less athletic than many. He would fall on his knees. But he had a dignity about him, because of his recordings, that related to his mind and not to his physical presence. He disappointed audiences...
...conference to bat out the differences between the House and Senate bills, the Senate was represented by all conservatives--Eastland (D-Miss), Ervin (D-N.C.), McClellan (D-Ark.), Dirksen (R-Ill), and Hruska (R-Neb.). The committee made proceedings and hearings singular, and added the proviso that if the Attorney General had not begun searching for "subversives" in six months he would have to justify his inaction before Congress...
Died. Frazier Hunt, 82, who helped cast the stereotype of the dashing, trench-coated foreign correspondent; of a stroke; in Abington, Pa. "Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote...
...vote of 6 to 2, the court rejected as unconstitutional the McCarran provision that any Communist Party member is ipso facto denied the right to work in defense plants. "For almost two centuries our country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, who delivered the majority opinion. "It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties-the freedom of association-which makes the defense of the nation worthwhile...