Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State Department Building. At 4:50 o'clock that afternoon. President Kennedy was back in his oval office, talking to aides, when Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy walked in with a yellow-slip of Teletype paper bearing the report, which had just been verified by the Central Intelligence Agency. Then, still two hours before the Soviet Union officially announced that it planned to resume atomic testing. John F. Kennedy began to plan about meeting Russia's latest brazen threat in the cold...
Each of the Kennedy homes has been planned with children in mind; no room is, or ever has been, off limits to any child, and the fact shows. One decorator has complained that a Kennedy decorating job consists mainly of replacing slip covers and turning rugs so that the bad spots do not show. Each house abounds in roomy, overstuffed and not necessarily stylish chairs, because all the Kennedys seem not so much to sit in chairs as to bivouac in them. Since most members of the family are prodigious readers, reading lamps are scattered everywhere. Another must in every...
Hughes's control of TWA began to slip last year, when he ran into trouble with a $165 million financing plan to pay for jets. New York's Irving Trust Co. and Equitable Life finally agreed to lend TWA the money, but only on stringent conditions: Hughes was obliged to place the 78% of TWA's stock owned by Hughes Tool Co. under the control of a voting trust composed of former Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds, and Raymond M. Holliday, chief operating officer of Hughes Tool...
...week Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges said that U.S. capital spending abroad will amount to $4.5 billion this year-more than 20% above 1960-and he predicted that the upswing would be "accentuated" by any expansion in the Common Market. Not only will U.S. entrepreneurs feel a growing need to slip under Europe's tariff curtain, but they will find it easier to do. Instead of having to set up plants in each of two rival camps, a U.S. businessman will be able to sell to the continental Six from a subsidiary in Britain, and vice versa. Since the Common...
...railroads suffer, too, from memories of the bad and fat old days when many of them arrogantly set their rates according to "what the traffic would bear"-a practice that not only opened the way for trucks to slip in and skim off the cream of the freight, but that also inspired the steady expansion of federal regulation of railroads. Nowadays, a railroad cannot raise or lower its fares, expand or contract its lines, merge or diversify its business without express approval of the slow-rolling Interstate Commerce Commission. Overworked and understaffed, the ICC itself harbors no illusions about...