Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Minister Ludwig Erhard was addressing delegates of 24 African states, who had come to Germany to discuss trade and political ties. Erhard warned them against "losing your freedom," orated that "colonialism has been overcome, but worse than colonialism is imperialism of the Communist totalitarian pattern." Up from the front row of invited diplomats jumped Andrei Smirnov, the Russian Ambassador to Bonn. Waving a fistful of papers, he rushed toward Erhard shouting: "You talk about freedom. Germany killed 20 million people in our country...
Some of the children said they had been able to influence their less fortunate friends. Andreas Panagis told how "one day I went to the Lewiston Stadium concert, and I liked it. The next time my friend decided to come with me. We went three nights in a row. Later in the summer, he took me to a show in Central Park, and now he likes to go to Broadway plays...
...increased social security, unemployment and veterans' payments, while wages and salary income fell $400,000,000 because of drops in employment and working hours. September retail sales fell about 1% from August, hovering only 1% above strike-ridden September of 1959. For the second month in a row, U.S. industrial production slipped in September, falling a point to a 1960 low of 107 of the 1957-based index; the August decline, in turn, was revised downward to two points instead of the one point previously estimated. Thus, the three-point drop in two months was almost as sharp...
...second week in a row, the freshman eleven dropped a game in the concluding moments of play. The Yardliage lost to Dartmonth yesterday...
...week reported. Business loans, an indicator of plans for future business activity, rose sharply in the first three weeks of September-by some $600 million-after a two-month decline. Even the stock market, which has been sliding, turned around last week and moved up three days in a row. Advised Ben Davis of Wall Street's Mitchell, Hutchins & Co., whose quips often get more attention than his guesses: "The time to buy stocks is not when you are 'tickled to death' but when you are 'scared to death,' and if you are not scared...