Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...patient diplomatic efforts to keep lids on a dozen potential volcanoes in the Arab world, the U.S. has to walk with care along the mountainous hatreds between the Arab nations and Israel. If U.S. diplomacy is offended in principle by the fact that Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser bars the Suez Canal to all Israeli shipping and blacklists all ships that traffic in Israeli ports, in private it thinks first about all those Arab volcanoes spouting at the same time. Last week the State Department found the whole delicately balanced U.S. position in the Middle East jeopardized...
...honor stood in his way. But last week, twelve weeks before the convention, Dick Nixon's command of the situation was a questionable honor: it left him fighting almost single-handed against the combined offensives of all the Democrats, and fighting at the same time to keep some good order and discipline in a Republican Party restive over inactivity and increasingly gloomy over congressional prospects...
Image. Nixon's first job, as he saw it, was to keep alive the image of the responsible leader, while the Democrats were grabbing most of the headlines in primary campaigns. His technique: a series of calculated, noncontroversial public appearances before as many people as possible. Early last week he turned up to talk about the spirit of freedom and independence before a gigantic Polish-American picnic in Chicago. He hopped back to Washington to preside over the Senate. Then he was off to work his way through the vast U.S. World Trade Fair in Manhattan's Coliseum...
...named president of Bates Manufacturing Co., Maine's largest textile company (1959 sales: $38 million). He was the choice of Bates's chairman and chief stockholder, Mrs. Sylvia Martin, widow of Bates's last president, Lester Martin. Goldsmith is also president of Mojud Co., will keep both jobs. London born, he migrated to Brooklyn after World War I, started as a sample boy in a hosiery firm, by 30 owned his first mill. In 1940 he bought the Diamond hosiery firm (150 employees), sold it in 1954 (sales: $8,000,000; employees: 1,500) to head lingerie...
SPORTS-COUPE CORVAIR called the Monza-900 (named after Italian race track) will go into 1,000-per-month production in May, have bucket seats and fancier dash-and-panel trim, but keep standard Corvair 80-h.p. rear engine. Price...