Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion. No, I'm going to wait for the President to call me, and then I am going to tell him we can cut only $500 million. Then we'll be all right." And that, says Clifford's aide, was exactly the way it went...
...most New Yorkers, the very thought of a Met victory was an alien concept. "In those days," recalls Leftfielder Cleon Jones, "people never even asked if we had won. Most of the time it would have been a silly question." But the fans went on cheering, ever hopeful that some day heroics would replace horselaughs...
...line single by Rookie Jim Quails in the ninth inning spoiled his bid for what would have been the eleventh perfect game since professional baseball began 100 years ago. Cub Manager Leo Durocher was roundly unimpressed. The next day, when the Mets committed two errors in one inning and went on to lose to the Cubs 6-2, Durocher, who is neither magnanimous in victory nor mellow in defeat, smugly observed: "Those were the real Mets...
...school, became a New York commerical artist, and in 1943 won his first TIME commission. The association was interrupted from 1945 to 1949 while he worked on 32 highly acclaimed illustrations to Biblical characters for the book In Our Image: Character Studies from the Old Testament. Then he went back to producing memorable TIME covers, including Gambler Frank Costello (1949), Israel's David Ben-Gurion (1957) and Mao Tse-tung...
Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...