Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slight and ineffectual as these stirrings are, they ought at least to indicate to the Atlantic Alliance (which has never known how to treat an ally whose vicious administration of Angola has disgusted most of the world) that Portuguese politics are not entirely frozen. Salazar is 73, and when he dies sudden spurts of opposition will not vanish after November. NATO has refrained from trying to influence Salazar's regime because it fears a schism, yet the oddities of this election help to show that it may, paradoxically, be burning its own boats. The Alliance will not be able...
With the Club's first string back on the active list, the contest should be much closer than previously predicted, although Princeton is still a slight favorite. The team lost to the Boston Rugby Club last week after its victory over the highly touted Dartmouth squad two weeks...
...daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, was honored by a visit from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally kissed his granddaughter good night, steered Lady Churchill into an elevator and headed for home...
...Communists? "I've been suggesting that possibility for years," John Bennett smiled to a friend last week. "But all of a sudden they kick up a fuss about it." One reason for the fuss is that the cold war is hotter than ever; another is that slight, smiling Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett, 59, is now dean of the faculty at Manhattan's prestigious Union Theological Seminary and one of the leaders of U.S. Protestant thought...
...Zeitschrift für Physik a sensational paper reporting that gamma rays given off by certain radioactive isotopes can be used for infinitely delicate measurements. When projected toward suitable absorbers, those gamma rays can gauge extremely small motions and distances. They have even been used to register the slight change of frequency that results when they travel a few feet vertically through the earth's gravitational field. Physicists who are passionately concerned with Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (which explains the large-scale behavior of the universe on the basis of relative motion) are satisfied that...