Word: spring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reporting for alert duty, Lieut. Colonel Dante Bulli and his crew in effect braced themselves at the end of a taut, outstretched spring. The trigger was the rasping sound of a klaxon horn. At any moment, that horn might blow. It could mean that a Soviet nose cone was on its way carrying destruction, and that there were 15 minutes in which to get off the ground and head for preassigned Soviet targets. There would be no time for second thoughts, no room for second-guessing as to whether some button-pusher was running a test. To the SAC alert...
...officials and delegates of white and Asian settlers. Last week they arose with the outline of a totally new Kenya. Its main terms: ¶ A common voting roll and an expanded franchise that would raise the number of eligible African voters to perhaps a million in new elections next spring. ¶ A 65-member legislature in which Africans seem certain of 37 seats, a clear majority...
Wearing a crown of flowers, the British royal family's pretty Princess Alexandra, 23, daughter of the Duchess of Kent and cousin of the Queen, brought a touch of early spring to a wintry landscape as she rode to a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London...
Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Trying to give winter the brush-off some three weeks early, ABC introduces its new musical series. The first installment, The Sound of Spring, taps Debussy, Stravinsky, Rodgers & Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein, stars Bill Hayes, Betty Johnson, the Metropolitan Opera's Rosalind Elias...
Ever since the TVA complained last spring about identical bids for electric-power-generating equipment, the Justice Department has been investigating the pricing policies of the nation's major electric-equipment manufacturers. Last week, in a series of criminal antitrust indictments, a federal grand jury in Philadelphia charged that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Corp., Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., I-T-E Circuit Breaker Co. and Federal Pacific Electric Co. conspired to submit "noncompetitive, collusive and rigged bids" on private and government business valued at $209 million a year. The grand jury also indicted G.E., Westinghouse...