Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Senate and the vice-presidency, failed in his own first race for the Republican congressional nomination in the affluent 16th (Beverly Hills) District. After 1956 charges that he had been an influence peddler around Washington, Murray Chotiner abruptly retired from Nixon's life, campaigned for Congress this spring with glacial silence from Nixon, lost to a soft-hitting wealthy oilman, Alphonzo E. Bell...
...Warm spring thunderstorms flicked lightning across the sky, crackled, then poured soft rain on Havana's tree-shaded streets. Sea birds screeched and wheeled, and lovers ran to cover from the concrete sea wall along Malecon drive. The air smelled, as always, of strong tobacco and stronger coffee. Most of the prostitutes and pimps that used to degrade the city were gone, cleaned out by Fidel Castro's moralistic revolution. In eastern Santiago, teen-agers danced in the streets to the latest Afro-Cuban rhythm, a hip-buster called the pachanca...
...retail sales. The Commerce Department reported that retail sales in May fell 3% from their April record of $19.2 billion, a larger-than-usual drop for the month. The decline hit most major goods, including autos, though it took little of the gas out of Detroit's spring upsurge. May sales of more than 565,000 cars were nearly 7% above May of last year, represented the best daily-average selling rate (22,610) since September 1955. The industry is now running some 13% ahead of 1959's so-so year. Within the next fortnight, the U.S. auto...
...Continent saw this as an effort to enjoy the privileges of the club without paying dues. But to those who longed for the day when a united Europe would stretch from Belfast to Berlin, the sight of Britain beginning to budge even a little was as welcome as spring's first swallow...
...Spring Music Festival (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reorganized under Director Alfredo Antonini, the CBS Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in ten years. The program features John Browning (piano), Aaron Rosand (violin), John Se bastian (harmonica). A worthwhile series sponsored by Revlon, evidently trying to make up for a TV past that includes the big quizzes and this season's defunct Big Party...