Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ride with Aunt Effie. That afternoon, with fingers pressed to her ears against the thunderous noise, Lady Bird attended the test firing of a Saturn booster. "I never dreamed it would be that loud," she said, "It was fantastic. If you leaned up against this wall you just could feel it was quivering." Before leaving she recalled girlhood days in Alabama: "Until I was about 20, summertime always meant Alabama to me. With Aunt Effie we would board the train in Marshall and ride to the part of the world that meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek...
...ground by South Viet Nam troops accompanied by U.S. observers. Seventeen Cambodians were killed. Both the U.S. and South Viet Nam apologized for the unfortunate incident, a part of the even more unfortunate, long and deadly war in Viet Nam. But Sihanouk plastered horror pictures on every available wall and took to the radio in his terrier's tenor, accusing the U.S. of masterminding the attack. The Prince demanded that Washington pay reparations, including "one bulldozer or a powerful tractor for each of our dead...
Died. Emerson Wirt Axe, 69, Wall Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
Like steam in a pot, a hot controversy is building up between Wall Street and the Securities and Exchange Commission-and the man in the middle is Lyndon Johnson. Pleased by the market's 100-point rise since he took office, Johnson last week courteously received New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston at the White House. But while the President tries to keep Wall Street friendly to his Administration, the SEC is relentlessly moving in on what it considers the Street's abuses. The most obvious sign of the dispute at the moment...
...Helene Curtis got a lead on the market by rushing out its Magic Secret lotion. This week Coty begins shipping LineAway. In May, RevIon will release Liqui-Lift; other unwrinklers will come soon after from Helena Rubinstein, Max Factor and Del Russo of Miami. In the boudoir-and on Wall Street-the lotions look like the biggest thing cosmetically since the royal-queen-bee-jelly fad depleted pocketbooks in the mid-1950s...