Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack Kennedy had figured the West Virginia odds at 60-40-against himself. His odds were right; he had just predicted the wrong winner. When the final returns were in, he had swept West Virginia by 220,000 votes to Hubert Humphrey...
...Africa Club. Louw said the other Prime Ministers had greeted him with "ignorance, prejudice and even malice." He told the ministers to their faces that they represented "the uninformed opinion of people who have never been in South Africa." Taking advantage of the tradition that the conference's final communique must be unanimously approved, Louw blocked every draft until he got one so innocuous that his boss, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, still convalescing at home from an assassin's bullets, could agree to accept it. The communique tamely noted that the Commonwealth was a "multiracial association" and called...
...Most Rigorous." Fueled by war babies and hunger for status, the spurt in Ivy League applications ranged from 10% over last year at Cornell to 28% at the University of Pennsylvania. The average: 16%. With an 18% boost in final applications, Princeton's Director of Admission C. William Edwards called the selection job "the most rigorous in my experience." It was just as bad for women's colleges. Radcliffe had 1,000 "well-qualified" applicants for a freshman class...
...good. The California lab told Jodrell Bank to give the final commands; then it listened to the proceedings over an open-voice channel. At intervals of one minute, not long enough to get a response from 8,000,000 miles away. Jodrell sent orders speeding into space. First it told Pioneer V to switch half-power current through the filaments of the 150-watt transmitter. Then it called for full-power current. Then it gave the payoff order: to turn on the high plate voltage that would actually start the big transmitter. Eighty-six seconds after the final command left...
...market got a healthy boost from President Eisenhower's press-conference "good news" about the U.S. economy. Ike made one announcement that everyone had long expected: final figures for the gross national product during the first quarter were above earlier estimates. The value of goods and services produced in the U.S. had nudged over the magic half-trillion-dollar mark, was running at the rate of $502 billion a year...