Word: tant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companion, an Air Force psycholo gist named Sheldon Freud ("a very dis tant cousin of Sigmund - fifth or sixth"), answered promptly: "Sit down and we'll order coffee." While they sipped their coffee at Doney's, the first man checked the dial on a small instrument hooked to his belt. He was noting his temperature. There was a wire leading from the gauge down his trousers to a rectal thermometer...
...canvas lay in a box of junk in an Alexandria, Va., secondhand store. But when Christine du Tant, wife of a U.S. Senate aide, unrolled it, she recognized the handsome young man it portrayed and bought it for $3. A curator of the Smithsonian Institution agreed with her: the small (10 in. by 14 in.) oil by an unknown artist is indeed of the young Abraham Lincoln, painted around 1840, and thus the earliest-known likeness of the future President. He had just turned 30 at the time and was a frontier legislator and lawyer in the midst...
Nowhere was this more visible than in the U.S., where both business and government frequently based their most impor tant economic actions on the need to become more competitive in world markets. The turning point of the year for the U.S. economy?the great steel crisis?seemed a peculiarly domestic fuss. But when U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough decided to raise steel prices $6 a ton less than a week after his company had signed its first noninflationary labor contract since the Korean war. he used foreign competition as a justification for his move. Overseas competitors, paying lower wages...
...Room 1007 was the second face-to-face encounter between Barnett and Meredith. A few days earlier, Barnett had blocked Meredith's path when he attempted to register at the University of Mississippi campus at Oxford (TIME, Sept. 28). In the interval between the two confrontations, impor tant events took place in the New Orleans courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Faced with contempt charges, the state college board capitulated and promised to register Meredith. To keep Barnett from interfering again, the court issued a sweeping order enjoining him, plus a list of lesser...
...even as it has burgeoned, the far right has wrought its strong counter-reactions. Its "superpatriotism" has recently come in for strong criticism from President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower, from Vice President Johnson and former Vice President Nixon, and from leaders of Roman Catholic, Protes tant and Jewish churches. American Motors Chairman George Romney, a conservative who is considering running next year as Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, recently shook up a meeting of the All-American Society in Salt Lake City by telling the audience: "Infiltration of Communism is not the greatest problem facing our country...