Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abstemious and devout Baptist, Watson left an executive post with the Lone Star Steel Co. in Dallas three years ago to work full time for the President. Earlier, in 1964, he had helped direct arrangements at the Democratic Convention. He is remembered for his dour directive to office girls, telling them not to spend their lunch hours basking on the Atlantic City boardwalk and not to wear diaphanous blouses...
...contact with other human beings, confined to a 40-ft.-long chamber and breathing the same limited supply of oxygen over and over, four California college students might as well be in far-off space. And that is the idea. Ever since they were sealed up in a white steel cylinder in an outbuilding behind the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Santa Monica plant on Feb. 19, the students have been testing a life-support system designed for future orbital missions t hat could last for 60 days or longer...
...just ten minutes, on May 31, 1889, a busy mountain-valley Pennsylvania steel town was wiped out, with 2,209 dead. A soaking rain had begun to fall a day earlier, turning the Little Conemaugh River into a spillway. Flooded streets were commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some...
Strong Backing. High-tariff advocates, concerned over competition from rising imports, have laid a score of quota proposals before Congress. They could affect $12 billion, or 75% of the nation's dutiable imports: not only textiles and dairy items but also apparel, steel, shoes, glass, oil, lead, zinc, pot ash, electronic products, ball and roller bearings, meat, honey, frozen strawberries, mink fur and watches. The three major bills have impressive senatorial backing: 29 co-sponsors for oil quotas, 36 for steel and 68 for textiles-in the third case enough to override a promised presidential veto. In the House...
...Spanish Harlem, a couple of detectives park their car, climb the stairs of a sleazy tenement, pull out their guns and kick in a door. A hood named Barney Benesch, in bed with a broad, is surprised but not particularly flustered; he puts on his clothes and his steel-rimmed glasses, then pulls the bedcovers off the wide-eyed, naked girl and tells her to get his jacket. As she flits across the floor, the audience's eyes follow her avidly. So do the eyes of the detectives. Wham-Benesch has his gun out and the drop on them...