Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Conservative Robert Morris, 45. onetime counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, was a good-looking, vigorous campaigner who for 17 months made the rounds of nearlv all of New Jersey's counties. His primary opponent was Clifford Case, 56. a freshman Senator favored by organized labor, who stood staunchly on his record as an Eisenhower liberal, stuck so staunchly to his work in Washington that he put in only token campaign appearances at home...
Gunfire rattled again last week through remote cities with names once painfully familiar to U.S. G.I.s - Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu, Taejon, Seoul. Once again, as he had in 1950, South Korea's stubborn, prideful President Syngman Rhee, 85, stood with his back to the wall. But this time Rhee's opponents were not Commu nist invaders. They were South Korea's own eager, patriotic youngsters...
...have learned nothing from its fortnight of revolt. Far from recognizing that something was drastically wrong, the ruling Nationalists, who are mostly Afrikaners, closed ranks. The official opposition, the United Party, which speaks for most of the English-speaking population, offered some minor quibbles but made clear that it stood shoulder to shoulder with the Nationalists in their efforts to put down the rioters and preserve white privilege. In fact, the crisis dramatized the extraordinary fact that in South Africa, apartheid has the sympathy and support of almost every white...
These tinkly lyrics are not from a vintage operetta but from one of the best-and in a sense most modern-productions ever accorded Mozart's Don Giovanni. For all the Met's fine performances this year, the NBC Opera Company's TV version last week stood out as a high point of the opera season. Usually, English translations of opera have the incongruous effect of a grey flannel suit at a fancy dress ball, but this time Poet W. H. Auden and Collaborator Chester Kallman managed to provide language that was not ridiculed by the music...
...Geneen resigned last May as executive vice president, the stock of Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass. (1959 sales: $494 million) has been slipping. In three years Geneen had reorganized Raytheon, stepped up profits. But he craved the title and authority to go with the hard work. In his way stood Raytheon President Charles Francis Adams, the shrewd and respected Yankee banker who took over Raytheon in 1948, but whose talents are more on the financial than the production side. Announced Geneen abruptly one day: "I'm resigning." He is now president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp...