Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...girls have won the national indoor and outdoor women's championships for each of the past six years. At the trials, led by willowy Wilma Rudolph-who set a world record of 22.9 sec. in the 200-meter dash earlier this month-the Tiger-belles prompted Temple to the euphoric hope that the U.S. women might surprise the heavily favored Australians, Russians and British at Rome...
...State Department reluctantly validated the passport. Within three days the Chinese Foreign Ministry granted Snow his visa, though it has rejected countless applications from other newsmen over the past few years. "The speed," said the State Department, "speaks for itself." Lest anyone think that Snow's case might set a precedent, the Chinese explained that Snow was not in China as a newsman at all. He was there merely as the guest of a friend, New Zealand Expatriate and longtime Chinese Communist Propagandist Rewi Alley, with whom Snow is staying in Peking...
Summoned home from an assignment in New York by word that his summer cottage 50 miles west of St. Louis had burned to the ground, Link picked up his eleven-year-old son Ted Jr. and set out by car for the scene. Before he left, he slipped a loaded .38-caliber revolver into his pocket; on the way, he stopped in the little town of Grover, Mo. and made a purchase: a 12-gauge shotgun and two magnum shells...
...argument seems remote and insubstantial to the growth industry men, who in their own companies are not satisfied with growing less than 25% a year. They set high goals for themselves because they have immense confidence not only in the future of the U.S. economy but in their own ability to influence its course, to fulfill needs before they are fully recognized, to change the times rather than merely keep up with them...
...stock's book value. To Sherman Fairchild, the reasons for buying growth make good sense. When he decided to buy stock in Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., which was a growth stock ten years ago and still is, he called up the Wall Street office that he set up just for investment purposes. "They asked me if I didn't want to see the balance sheets of the company," says Fairchild. "I said no, I've met their people, and that is good enough for me. Everyone I met seemed to know his business, what the company objectives...