Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute filmed eulogy to Kennedy be delayed until after the Democratic delegates had nominated Humphrey as their vice-presidential candidate. Bobby Kennedy was to make a small speech introducing the film, and the President was taking no chances that the emotional waves would cause a new tide for Bobby as his running mate...
...PEACE. "The search for peace requires the utmost intelligence, the clearest vision, and a strong sense of reality," warn the Democrats. "Responsible leadership, unafraid but refusing to take needless risk, has turned the tide in freedom's favor." Said the G.O.P. plank: "A dynamic strategy aimed at victory-pressing always for initiative for freedom, rejecting always appeasement and withdrawal-reduces the risk of nuclear...
...American economic presence abroad inevitably worries some nations, particularly in Europe, where some governments feel that the rising tide could turn into a flood to inundate local industries. In France, American companies already account for 90% of the synthetic rubber market, 95% of carbon black, and 65% of farm machinery. Many experts feel that the tide of U.S. investment in Europe has reached its peak, and is due to level off and eventually fall. That may happen, but U.S. companies are still welcomed into hundreds of industries in Europe-and are still moving in fast. Even if the tide does...
Most of the derelict sculptures wash away with the tide. But some are such masterpieces that they regularly cause crack-ups by gawking drivers on the nearby freeway. One is a 12-ft. gallows with the 13 steps and a hanging effigy, its neck snapped at a medically correct angle. Another is a dinosaur and pterodactyl combination well planted in the muck. Last week a 17-year-old high-schooler named Wayne Saxton finished his fifth dereliction - a mammoth Viking warrior standing almost 20 ft. high. "I like Vikings," said he, as if that explained everything...
...contained novels as chapters in a projected, twelve-part series that he calls The Music of Time. So numerous are the odd and diverting characters who flash in and out of his pages that a list of all their names and relationships, assembled by London's Time and Tide two novels back, occupied four full pages of type. Yet every one of them is as distinctively striated and plump with life as a mountain trout, and the society they inhabit is as compellingly real and elaborate as Proust's Paris...