Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studying a pile of computer reports from Kirtland. He came to the Dec. 3 shower. The report started like many others, but toward the end the computer wrote in effect: "I give up." Linsley said to his wife, "I see something crazy," and went to work with his slide rule. Half an hour later he telephoned his colleague, Dr. Livio Scarsi: "I think we may have something...
...Administration, you have a lot of problems of policy, like whether or not to use an overlapping grip." Wild laughter always greeted that one, but with a nod and a nervous chuckle, and a characteristic "It s true, it's true," he would slide off into a skein of digressions, usually with an aside for interested conservatives, telling them that they could get the Chicago Tribune anywhere in the U.S., "flown in, packed in ice." Following Stevenson in Africa, he reported that the natives were suspicious of Adlai's quick smile and thought he lacked warmth. Then, circling...
...United Nations, once dismissed as that debating society on the East River, last week saved the Congo from collapse. With order breaking down, with Belgian paratroopers and mutinous Congolese troops at deadly loggerheads, the U.N. swiftly put together a force that stemmed the slide toward chaos. It was the U.N.'s finest hour, the greatest accomplishment in its short, 15-year history...
...cramped as the cabin of a spaceship, Huntley and Brinkley muffled all organ tones, were obviously so complementary a pair-Brinkley the aperitif, Huntley the cordial-that neither could have done so well alone. They relaxed and let history write itself: while the CBS team hinted at a panic slide away from Kennedy, H. & B. refused to make artificial excitement of what their calculations told them was artificial news...
...brought to Kress two years ago, after the top management resigned to avert a proxy fight. Trustees of the Kress Foundation, which holds 42% of the stock, had balked at the lagging company's conservative policies. Cobb expanded into new merchandise, but he failed to stop the sales slide, which has continued every year but one since 1952. For the first five months of 1960, sales fell off 5.6%, and the directors cut the quarterly dividend from 50? to 25?. At the annual meeting in May. Cobb came under heavy fire from irate stockholders, finally confessed: "We made mistakes...