Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high in the San Jacinto Mountains, a nonsectarian sanctuary is maintained all year round for men and women of any religious belief-Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, etc. We believe in the need for the self-disciplines of the spiritual life. Apparent miracles have happened in just a weekend, when some man or woman resolves a problem through "listening" to inner divine direction. Some arrive confused and often in real trouble-but leave in radiance and at peace...
...communications system: enemy aircraft were striking south from Alaska and Canada; 100 U.S. cities were blasted in atomic attack. Adding a lighter note, Mamie and Ike's grandchildren arrived by car from Washington, and next morning all drove off to the President's Gettysburg farm for a weekend of golf and relaxation...
...little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt uneasy about his vote. On his weekend, he read up on the advantages of a long-range fund: e.g., a three-year authorization, in place of the usual one-year program, would be more efficient, less expensive and would encourage underdeveloped countries to undertake sound, well-planned projects...
Before official Washington could get out if town for the long weekend, Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy set off a cannon cracker in the Senate that rattled the windows at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and painfully burned an ally 3,800 miles away. The Kennedy rework: an urgent appeal for the U.S. to step into the bloody Algerian rebellion against French rule and lend its weight to the cause of Algerian independence...
...concerned about the U.S. economic mood midway in 1957, a prime indication of the nation's confidence came last week from Wall Street. After floundering aimlessly over the last fortnight, the stock market surged forward, shrugging off all reports of soft spots and vacation shutdowns, the long holiday weekend and other normally depressing factors. In the kind of selective trading that has become the trademark of 1957's bull market, investors sent International Business Machines up 21 points in two days to a new high of 358; Alcoa went to 101 for a 21% gain over the year...