Word: rows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock in the almost empty Senate chamber stood at a few minutes past 11 one morning last week as Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas unfolded his lanky frame from his first-row seat and tersely asked unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to consider a minor bill already passed by the House. Senators drifting into the chamber almost ignored the majority leader's routine request, which was routinely granted. The bill, a piece of legislative trivia, would authorize the Army to lease an unused barracks building at Fort Crowder to neighboring Stella, Mo. (pop. 177) to replace...
...commander of the crucial Operation Greenhouse, in which the U.S. exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok. In 1951, at age 47, Lieut. General Quesada retired. He worked for a while at California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (vice president of the missile-systems division), but quit in a row over policy. When Ike called him to Washington, Quesada was dabbling successfully in investments with space-age inventors...
...Johanna Reston, in Clydebank, Scotland on Nov. 3, 1909. His father, a machinist, took the family to the U.S. in 1911, but returned to Scotland in a few months, after Mrs. Reston fell ill. They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"-two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such as Christmas and other holidays; otherwise the family lived in the front room, Mrs. Reston cooking over a grate, the two children, Jimmy and his elder sister (by four years) Joan, sleeping crosswise...
...screen. He is a dull-eyed, dried-up, middle-aged bureaucrat, a worn and fading rubber stamp. He goes to the hospital, learns his fate: six months to live. He is shattered. For the first time in 30 years he misses work-one. two, three days in a row. He starts to drink. "I can't die." he mumbles to a stranger he meets in a bar. "I don't know what I've been living for." The stranger replies fiercely: "Greed is considered immoral, but it isn't. Man must have the greediness to live...
...billion rather than a $10 billion rate, thus spreading out buying and making growth more steady through 1960. This is already partly borne out by the fact that pressure on interest rates has eased. The rate on Government bills fell for the fourth week in a row to a three-month...