Word: tional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York taxi drivers at that. With each pair of ducats went a letter from General Manager Ralph Houlc, 44, telling how the Yanks ("a great New York institution") wanted to "do something for another great New York institution." The Yanks could use some friends: the Na tional League's happy-go-sloppy Mets were outdrawing them at home...
Right now, Rumania is being the most "Gaullist" in its efforts to set a na tional course of its own. After signing a trade agreement with the U.S., Bucharest sent representatives to Geneva last week, inquiring about the possibility of membership not only in the West-sponsored GATT trade organization but in Washington's World Bank and International Monetary Fund as well. Reportedly the Hungarians and Bulgarians put out similar feelers. In Geneva, two Rumanian envoys made contact with Common Market bureaucrats, but dropped a scheduled "working lunch" when word leaked out prematurely...
...state's House seats ran at large. In last week's Democratic pri mary, Elliott, 51, stood ninth and, after seven House terms, was turned out of office. Just to underline their point, Alabama Democrats nominated Birmingham's former police commissioner, Eugene ("Bull") Connor, an interna tional symbol of segregation, for the presidency of the utility-regulating state public service commission...
Nothing else mattered in last week's clash between Peru and Argentina. Na tional teams from the two countries were playing in a continent-wide round robin to decide on two teams to represent Latin America in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Argentina, with a 5-0 record, seemed a shoo-in. Peru had two wins and a tie, but with three to play, still had a chance-if it could get by the tough Argentines. Scalpers had a field...
...what they want is to provoke a war, they are going to have it - cost what it may. Let us prepare our surface-to-air missiles." In a diplomatic note delivered through the Swiss embassy in Havana, the Cubans formally warned the U.S. against "flagrant violations of na tional sovereignty." Another bellicose note to the U.N. said much the same thing...