Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOON after early-morning prayers at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque one day last week, flames burst from the ceiling beneath its famed silver dome. For three hours, the fire raged, destroying part of the roof and an 800-year-old pulpit of exquisitely carved cedarwood and inlaid ivory, a gift from the Islamic hero Saladin (1137-1193). Before Israeli and Arab firemen could extinguish the flames or anyone could investigate the fire, the entire Middle East was echoing with outraged Moslem demands for jihad-holy...
...just about every golfer not in the P.G.A. class soon learns, golf balls are deceptively fragile items. They are prone to chipping, cracking or denting when not stroked properly. Keeping an adequate supply on hand makes the game an expensive pastime. Now modern manufacturing techniques are taking away much of the strain. At least four firms, including the Faultless Rubber Co. of Ashland, Ohio, and the Chemold Corp. of Jamaica, N.Y., are making "solid-state" balls that are all but indestructible...
...Congress that high interest rates are "not a goal" of the Board's policy. He implied that he would be happy to see the economy lose enough steam to let rates fall. Still, there is scant chance that the Fed will ease its squeeze on money any time soon, if only because price increases are proving so difficult to arrest...
Some funds have been battered so badly that Wall Street elders expect management upheavals soon. Nonetheless, the funds, as well as many individual investors, remain deeply committed to the performance game. In their search for new favorites with which to play, they have seized on Natomas as an available game and made a virtue of the uncertainty about the company's oil prospects. To speculators, says Lucien Hooper of W. E. Hutton & Co., Natomas' merit is precisely that "no one can tell what it is worth...
...Next Test. The likelihood that speculators will soon find another way to outgain stock-market averages is not great. Last week the stock market slowly extended a technical rally from its July 29th low of 801.96 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. The average rose 16.37 to close at 837.25. Brokers almost unanimously expect that the rally will give way soon to a new drop that will "test" the low. Opinion is divided about evenly on whether or not the market will pass that test...