Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph that confounded the experts. Kennedy had carried all but seven of West Virginia's 55 counties. Despite the pressure of venerable United Mine Worker John L. Lewis for Humphrey, the miners in the depressed coal fields turned out for Kennedy. Despite the warnings of their militantly Protestant pastors, the hillbillies south of the Kanawha River voted for a Catholic; Kennedy, in fact, brought his campaign to a climax with a statewide Sunday evening television assurance that if any President of the U.S. took "dictation" from anyone, the Pope included, it would be contrary to his oath of office...
Peter's in Rome. Pope John XXIII consecrated 14 missionary bishops, under scored the Vatican's aim to proselytize the world's youngest nations. Among seven African Negroes elevated was Poreku Dery, Ghana's new Bishop of Wa. Others came from countries that are antiquating most maps of Africa- Ruanda-Urundi, the Voltaic, Ivory Coast and Malagasy republics. With a prayerful eye on this week's summit talks, His Holiness said: "The attention of millions is directed with deep anxiety on the words, actions, appearances of the highest representatives of the great nations on whose...
Many of its demanding fans, and even some of its own writers, sigh that the magazine has become afflicted with middle-aged spread. Profiles that once ran in two parts now run in three, and in the case of S. N. Behrman's recent seven-part profile on Max Beerbohm, a good-sized short story might have been told in the space it took Behrman just to arrive at his first meeting with Beerbohm, outside Rapallo. William Shawn, Ross's successor as editor, once told a friend over a drink: "The stories just seem to get longer...
...keep up to date and to remain competitive, vending-machine makers are now spending ten times what they used to on developing new gadgets. They are now experimenting with store-front units with a complete line of grocery staples, which could operate on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis. They are also perfecting new dispensing devices for supermarkets and drugstores to prevent costly pilferage of small items of merchandise...
...adopting a policy of trying to strengthen middle-sized regional trunk lines, CAB awarded them long hauls already amply served by the major lines. Today seven markets are served by five or more airlines; in 1955 there were none. Sometimes, as in the case of Delta and Braniff airlines, the plan worked. Often everyone got hurt. Says American Airlines President C. R. Smith: "Competition is good. It becomes bad when it is wasteful and there is insufficient business to provide a profit even for the most efficient...