Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...folded legs. The delta's inhabitants have learned to live with such hazards as high spring tides and violent cyclones that sweep in over the Bay of Bengal at the turn of the monsoon in the fall. But this month uncounted thousands of them died in the worst storm since October 1876, when 100,000 drowned in 30 minutes...
...Though McKay's Nixon endorsement surely would swing much weight with many of the nation's 1,400,000 Mormons (mostly in Utah, Arizona and Idaho), churchmen hastened to point out that the Mormon church has not officially endorsed a presidential candidate since stirring up a great storm by opposing Franklin Roosevelt's third term...
...imagine it must be a trying experience for him to appear in this kind of a parliamentary body. He is used to making speeches to unanimous audiences which give him nothing but applause." Another neutral delegate added, "I suppose he really thought he could take the U.N. by storm, especially the uncommitted nations. But he ended up with a left-wing African publicly criticizing him, and the Assembly applauding the criticism...
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). First half of D. W. Griffith's French Revolution story: Orphans of the Storm, vintage...
Suicides & Storms. Though the whole of Morison's history displays U.S. productive might and organizing skill as decisive in both oceans, this last chapter is as full as all the others of men's ordeal by storm and by battle. When Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey led his fleet into its second typhoon in six months, a court of inquiry urged that he be transferred "to other duty," and Navy Secretary Forrestal was only dissuaded from retiring the Navy's No. 1 popular hero by the argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered...