Word: thursday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thursday, June...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Call Me Bwana (1963). Bob Hope drops in the rough of an African jungle with Golf Champ Arnold Palmer. Anita Ekberg helps them caddie along...
When the markets opened last Thursday, a burst of trading toppled volume records not only on both major stock exchanges but also, by brokers' estimates, in the over-the-counter market. On the New York Stock Exchange, volume soared to an all-time peak of 21,350,000 shares. It was the third time since April 1 that Big Board turnover had reached new heights, eclipsing by ever-increasing margins the 39-year-old record of 16,410,000 shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929, when the market suffered its worst crash. On the American Stock Exchange, a center...
Everywhere, hundreds and thousands watched the cortege firsthand. Millions bore witness by television. The party arrived in New York City at 9 p.m. Thursday, and already the crowd was beginning to form outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. The church was not to be open to the public until 5:30 the next morning, but some waited on the sidewalks through the warm night. Then, thousands upon thousands, in line for as long as seven hours, they marched past the great bronze doors for a glimpse of the closed mahogany casket. The black, the young and the poor...
Everything was not enough. At 1:44 a.m. Thursday (P.D.T.), 25 hours after the shots rang out, Robert Kennedy died. "The family were right around him," said Cuneo. "They'd all been at his bedside for hours. Ethel was on one side of the Senator, Ted was on the other." Kennedy never regained consciousness. "It wasn't a question of sinking," reported his grief-stricken press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz. "It was a question of not rising...