Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the night, Jackie had come back again, slipped through the mourners. She knelt at the casket, brushed her lips against the flag. As she did so, Bobby Kennedy lingered brooding near the rotunda wall. When a reporter remarked to him of the crowds, Bobby managed a slight smile and murmured, "Fantastic. Fantastic." Then the couple left. Outside, Jackie said, "Let's walk a bit." Arm in arm, they moved almost like ghosts across the lawn below the steps and through the waiting line. As they turned to descend the hill at the Senate side of the Capitol...
...British government aid. But the U.S. came through with a pledge of $30 million over a five-year period for development projects, and has promised to build a road from Port of Spain to the U.S. Chaguaramas Naval Base. So far, despite Trinidad's own slight recession, industrialization is proceeding faster than in Jamaica...
...after the funeral, the New York Stock Exchange recorded the greatest rally in its history as paper values soared by $15 billion. The Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 32.03 points for the day, more than making up for the previous Friday's 21.16 loss, and, after a slight dip, went on rising to close the week at 750.52, ten points below the alltime high set a month ago. Heavy odd-lot buying showed that the small investor was back in the market in force. And the U.S. dollar held steady on world money markets, as speculators were fended...
...morning of his last day of life, he arose early, left his Fort Worth hotel, walked with buoyant stride through a slight mist to a nearby parking lot, where several thousand Texans were waiting behind barricades to see him. Explaining why Jackie had not accompanied him, the President laughed. "Mrs. Kennedy," he said, "is busy organizing herself. It takes a little longer, you know, but then she looks so much better than we do." And indeed she looked lovely when, wearing a pink wool suit and pillbox hat, she joined her husband at a breakfast sponsored by the Fort Worth...
...himself, and Democratic Action's nomination has gone to his old friend and the party's president, Raul Leoni, 57, a somewhat aloof and colorless politician who nevertheless can be expected to follow Betancourt's programs. The race for second place could be close, with a slight edge given to the Social Christian Party (COPEI), led by Rafael Caldera, 47, an able and dynamic lawyer. The two parties already operate together as a coalition, are expected to win a controlling majority in Congress and a mandate to carry...