Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy Secretary Thomas Gates Jr. was getting ready to retire, turn over his duties June 1 to Under Secretary William B. Franke, whose principal experience has been in financial management...
...cracked a certain smile as he posed with his East Germans at his elbow. (Actually, at least three of the six East Germans, including Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz, are Soviet citizens who spent years in Russian exile, came back to Germany with the Red armies.) Taking his turn in the chair next day. Gromyko pressed for admitting Poland and Czechoslovakia to the table too. Neither nation was one of the allied victors who are charged with making a German peace treaty, but Gromyko argued that they had suffered "incomparably" during World War II. France's Couve de Murville could...
...rare old soldier who limits himself to few speeches, retired General Omar N. Bradley, now board chairman of Bulova Watch Co., finally took pains to rebuke "a distinguished wartime colleague of mine." Said Bradley: "The best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and mothball his opinions." His target: Britain's retired Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who let Bradley off easy in his potshotting memoirs, more recently lambasted current U.S. leadership. Another Bradleyism for Monty to ponder: "So swift has been the advance of technology in our armed...
...Dead last going into the first turn at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, Mrs. Halina Braunstein's three-year-old colt Royal Orbit, a 7-to-1 shot, swung wide at the head of the stretch, put on a great burst of speed, romped home a comfortable four lengths ahead to win the 83rd running of the Preakness Stakes and $136,200 for his joyful owner...
...fact that U.S. gold, priced by law at $35 per ounce, plus a handling charge of one-fourth of i%, is slightly under the price on the British free market. The difference would encourage foreigners with dollars or other hard currency that they wanted to turn into gold to buy in the U.S. rather than in Britain. The British government itself was also buying U.S. gold again for its reserves. During the early part of this year, Britain stopped buying to accumulate $200 million borrowed from the International Monetary Fund in the Suez crisis...