Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient diplomatic efforts to keep lids on a dozen potential volcanoes in the Arab world, the U.S. has to walk with care along the mountainous hatreds between the Arab nations and Israel. If U.S. diplomacy is offended in principle by the fact that Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser bars the Suez Canal to all Israeli shipping and blacklists all ships that traffic in Israeli ports, in private it thinks first about all those Arab volcanoes spouting at the same time. Last week the State Department found the whole delicately balanced U.S. position in the Middle East jeopardized...
Richard Cwiklinski got out of his hospital bed in Milwaukee at 6:30 a.m., threw on a sports shirt and slacks, strolled down to the cafeteria for breakfast. After breakfast, he had a back rub, went for a walk in the hospital park, leisurely enjoyed the Lake Michigan landscape in the brisk spring...
...impressive, hour-long BBC tapes flown from London to Canada and picked up in full from there by NBC (other networks ran only newscasts and, later, highlights), Commentator Dimbleby described the princess tensely awaiting the walk to the altar, reassuringly reminded his audience of "the comforting, tall, friendly and alert figure of the Duke of Edinburgh, on whose right arm she can rely." He sifted the guests ("What a tower of strength Lady Churchill is"), spoke as the Voice of England when the bride's coach left the Abbey: "All of us wish, as she goes back through London...
Better Luck Next Time. In Hong Kong, while walking down a hall to his apartment, Law Kun-suk tore a pair of panties from an overhead line because it is supposed to be bad luck to walk under them, was clouted over the head by the irate owner, next day received a six-week jail sentence for property destruction...
...Servants. To woo the demanding U.S. consumer, at least to the point where the accessible substitute is preferable to a long walk, machine manufacturers have improved the quality and reliability of vending machines by employing the latest advances in refrigeration and electronics. Kansas City's Vendo Co. has set up completely automatic snack bars at the University of Kansas and the University of Wichita, offering sandwiches, milk, coffee, pastry and juices. Vendo, which expects 1960 sales of at least $50 million and profits of $2.50 per share, is setting up an automatic drive-in with a complete menu...