Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most credited with boosting the morale of West Berliners is the hero of the 1948 airlift, Special Presidential Envoy Lucius D. Clay, 64, who has become the image of a calm and determined U.S. in Berlin. He has toured East Berlin, passed through the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint, examined the Wall with minute care. He helicoptered to Steinstücken, a little enclave just over the West Berlin border that nevertheless belongs to the U.S. sector. Everywhere West Berliners cheer him. All this is calculated to show that the U.S. will not be pushed around by the Russians. "If we are pushed...
...with red-and-gold brocatelle from an old French castle, Lady Bird upholstered everything in jaspe satin ("Fabric-wise, I like this room best"), added a cherry-rose chair ''that seems to say, 'Come in.' " The dining room, which Mrs. Mesta had decorated with French wall coverings of tapestry patterns, was considered perfect as it was. In the foyer are displayed some dazzling mementos of the Johnsons' recent travels, e.g., a painting of sampans, from South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem, a Gandharan head from Pakistan's President Ayub. From Texas came...
Influenza viruses were found to have horns or spikes. On some of these is an enzyme that can dissolve part of a cell's outer coating. Presumably, this is what the flu virus uses to open a hole in the cell-factory wall for its nucleic-acid core to slip through. A virus known as T2 bacteriophage (it attacks bacteria) was found to have a tadpole shape; the "tail" is like a coiled spring around a tiny hypodermic needle that stabs the cell wall, and through this the nucleic-acid core is injected. Micrographs show whether viruses are basically...
...prospects. An A student in predentistry, rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 193 Ibs.) Quarterback Trammell is a bruising runner whose accurate passing (54 completions in 93 attempts, only two interceptions) has even surprised Bryant. Blocky (6 ft., 229 Ibs.) Lineman Neighbors, iron man in Alabama's sturdy forward wall, has started 26 straight games, plays both offense and defcase, anchors a rugged defensive line that has allowed opponents only 130 yds. a game...
...Wall Street professionals found plenty of reasons for the rise: brisk auto sales, some cooling of the Berlin crisis, and the expectation of more Government spending in the wake of last week's Democratic election victories. But the sharpest spur to the market came from General Motors Corp., which raised its annual dividend from $2 to $2.50 per share by declaring its first year-end extra dividend since the record auto-sales year of 1955. Avowedly based on the prospect of fast year-end auto sales-because of the August auto strike, G.M.'s third-quarter earnings were...