Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the fact that the Administration at year's end named Boeing and General Electric as the winners of the competition to build the U.S.'s first supersonic jet transport, the big bird has remained in a stall. In a bind over budget and congressional problems, President Johnson held back on funds that Boeing and G.E. need to make prototypes. Last week, however, the Administration hit on a new maneuver to start the SST toward...
...country's history (56%). Since then, the two have been the best of enemies. Last month Allende managed to win election as head of the Chilean Senate. Quietly, he organized a strong Senate opposition of Communists, socialists and middle-roading Radicals, all of whom had managed to stall most of Frei's legislative requests. Last week Allende savored his revenge and in the process made Chile the laughingstock of Latin America. Acting on an obscure 1833 law requiring congressional approval for all presidential trips abroad, the Senate voted to deny Frei permission to make his first state visit...
...occupied by Michael Rennie and Merle Oberon, the Duke and Duchess of Croydon, who have a bloody mess on their hands. The duke, a bit of a dipso, kills a small boy while driving drunk. The duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that...
STEPHANIE: I've taken the grand tour. C'mon, let me show you something. (All three push their way with relish through a door and bounce up a staircase). It's over here. Look. (she points to a worn stall with some carvings in the wood...
Some blame for the stall rests with the archaic ICC, despite its unanimous backing of the Penn Central. The commission made a basic mistake by taking up the eastern mergers piecemeal instead of together. This made it possible -and probable-that every other railroad would commence to scramble for position. There are indications, however, that even the hoary ICC is changing. Last month Commissioner William H. Tucker, 43, a onetime paratrooper who is not afraid to jump into railroad battles, moved into the chairman's job. Tucker has long argued against the case-by-case approach. "The public...