Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...United Nations, once dismissed as that debating society on the East River, last week saved the Congo from collapse. With order breaking down, with Belgian paratroopers and mutinous Congolese troops at deadly loggerheads, the U.N. swiftly put together a force that stemmed the slide toward chaos. It was the U.N.'s finest hour, the greatest accomplishment in its short, 15-year history...
...cramped as the cabin of a spaceship, Huntley and Brinkley muffled all organ tones, were obviously so complementary a pair-Brinkley the aperitif, Huntley the cordial-that neither could have done so well alone. They relaxed and let history write itself: while the CBS team hinted at a panic slide away from Kennedy, H. & B. refused to make artificial excitement of what their calculations told them was artificial news...
...laboratory Shettles spread sperm cells thinly on a glass slide, allowed them to dry, and examined them with a phase-contrast microscope-a type that makes tiny objects look like bright halos of light against a dark background, showing up details that ordinary microscopes miss. As the sperm dried, Shettles found that the heads of some looked round like doughnuts ; others appeared long and boat shaped. There were no intermediate types, although the size of the sperm varied a good deal from sample to sample. Shettles speculates that the roundheads carry the male-producing Y chromosome, while the longheads carry...
...brought to Kress two years ago, after the top management resigned to avert a proxy fight. Trustees of the Kress Foundation, which holds 42% of the stock, had balked at the lagging company's conservative policies. Cobb expanded into new merchandise, but he failed to stop the sales slide, which has continued every year but one since 1952. For the first five months of 1960, sales fell off 5.6%, and the directors cut the quarterly dividend from 50? to 25?. At the annual meeting in May. Cobb came under heavy fire from irate stockholders, finally confessed: "We made mistakes...
...with my thick socks on"-he is ideally built to withstand the hours of high-speed driving in a racer's tiny cockpit. His experience has taught him every trick of handling the 250-h.p. Grand Prix cars. He can swing a car into a slide to kill speed, use a bank bordering on a turn, as a buffer to keep his rear wheels on the road. He won last year's Italian Grand Prix by "slipstreaming"-tailing a Ferrari so closely that the rival car acted as a windbreak, letting Moss conserve precious fuel and tires...