Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Test of Force. For a while it seemed as if Frondizi might weather his 36th crisis in four years as President. To a military enraged over the fact that he had permitted followers of ex-Dictator Juan Perón to win in free congressional and provincial elections, Frondizi offered almost everything except his resignation. But eventually the protest became a test of force from which neither side could turn. When all appeals and offers had failed, Frondizi ordered his presidential guard from the palace and sat down to wait alone, still grimly determined to preserve at least the form...
...economy is sluggish simply because no industry is a standout performer. Good excuses are plentiful: January and Feb ruary weather was worse than usual this year. Homebuilding has slipped for four straight months. Construction outlays are at a ten-month low. Steel is pouring at 82% of capacity, and a lot of that reflects hedge-buying in recent weeks against the possibility of a strike. Store sales are fairly bright, but setting no records. Car sales are brisk-but not so brisk as they were in booming 1955-57, when the population was much smaller...
...same time. Lockheed's manned birds were flying high. The Navy's lumbering antisubmarine P2r plane, the Hercules cargo transport and the F-104 all-weather jet interceptor brought 1961 sales of another $459 million. And Lockheed, the biggest beneficiary of the Pentagon's new emphasis on brush-fire mobility and military airlift, last March won a contract to build the big military transport plane of the future, the 158-ton. 550-m.p.h...
Hopefully, there will be good weather in Durham as a lot of practice is needed before the first match at Annapolis. The Middles trounced Yale last week...
Nicest of all is the generous helping of old favorites like "Georgia Brown," "Stormy Weather" or "Poor Wayfaring Stranger." In songs like these, the 16 pleasant voices of the group are confident, controlled, quite professional, and ever so much better than the ragged Whiffenpoofs...