Word: threading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resign rather than form a new government on the basis of the election. Then, at the last minute he cancelled the address, and joined a cabinet meeting in search of some form of compromise. But at week's end, Nigeria's unity still hung by a thread...
...decision took Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey by surprise. Assuming that Johnson would wear the traditional cutaway, Hubert had already dropped by to see Washington Tailor Sam Scogna and get measured for the full-dress attire. Sam, forgetting that only spools rush in where tailors fear to thread, told everybody that the Vice President-elect was his customer for an inaugural outfit. Next thing Humphrey heard was a report that Tailor Sam was making a $175 cutaway for him. Making? cried Humphrey. I'm only renting...
...Pentagon currently has at least five such plans under study, ranging from limited strikes at the spidery jungle trails that thread through border areas all the way to massive air and sea bombardment of Hanoi and other targets in North Viet Nam. President Johnson is not enthusiastic about any of them. Even after he sent U.S. planes over North Viet Nam during last summer's Tonkin Gulf crisis, he declared: "We still seek no wider war." Signs are that he is sticking to that position...
Instead of Bridge. Florence Eiseman didn't wait to get into a rocker-barely, in fact, got out of the cradle before taking to a needle and thread. But not until her two sons went off to college in the 1940s could she find the time to do more than turn a collar or darn a sock...
Through many of these disparate disputes ran one common thread: a rebel lion against national union chiefs by angry lieutenants, ambitious local lead ers and restless rank and file. A new and independent union that recently ousted two less militant A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions shut down two-thirds of the West Coast paper industry by calling the first strike there in 30 years. In steel, the prospects of a strike next spring have been heightened by a battle for the presidency of the United Steelworkers (see THE NATION). And it is painfully obvious that Walter Reuther has had his hands full...