Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last week, Nixon took public note of his private hopes of interesting Governor Rockefeller in the vice-presidential nomination. Said Nixon: "A number of party leaders, Republican leaders, believe that Governor Rockefeller . . . would add strength to the ticket." But, he added, he did not blame Rockefeller, who withdrew last fall as a candidate for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, for showing no immediate interest. Snapped Rockefeller firmly: "I will not be a candidate for Vice President under any circumstances, no matter who asks...
Shoes & College. Launched last fall, the new setup (budget: $1,400,000) is run by able, crew-cut Superintendent Morvin A. Wirtz, 40, a therapy expert with a doctorate in special education. His sprawling domain covers 496 square miles. It has 25 buses that cover 2,500 miles a day, 156 special teachers, and six small buildings. (A recent tax boost will raise three big buildings.) Wirtz is also responsible for speech training (6,000 students) in regular schools, but the handicapped are his chief concern. Says he: "We have the potential for developing the best special-education program...
...India's wild northwest frontier, and the situation is jolly awkward. There in an isolated outpost sits a smallish British garrison, surrounded by hordes of Moslem tribesmen howling for the blood of a five-year-old Hindu rajah, the local British puppet. Any minute the walls may fall, and to make matters worse, Delhi cables a command: get the boy to Kalapur, and get him there fast. But 300 miles of rebel-infested territory lie between the fort and Kalapur, and in crossing it a rescue party would stand about as much chance as a moth in a monsoon...
...bustling statistician, Bernard Goldstein, offered 300 Ibs. of data and what the Congressmen clearly considered some unnecessarily fast talk to show "the universe, the population, the very census" of songs played on Clark's American Bandstand TV show. "Let the chips fall where they may," said Goldstein, seeking to prove with a blizzard of figures, algebraic formulae and four charts that could have been rainfall maps of the Pentagon that Clark had jockeyed his own songs and those in which he had no financial interest with fine impartiality. But the chips, obviously, had fallen into Clark's pockets...
...bright side was a McGraw-Hill survey taken last month, after many businessmen had tempered their overly optimistic view of 1960. It still showed that capital outlays will rise 16% this year to a record $37.9 billion. This was 6% more than outlay plans made last fall, indicating that pessimism had not yet affected expansion, that management was often more sanguine than investors...