Word: thing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...President," asked U.P.I.'s Merriman Smith, "do you feel any sense of urgency in catching up with the Russians?" Ike was obviously irritated. "I'm always a bit amazed about this business of catching up," he snapped. "What you want is enough, a thing that is adequate. A deterrent has no added power, once it has become completely adequate, for compelling the respect of any potential opponent." The fiscal 1960 budget, said he, appropriates $6,690,000,000 for missiles, "and this, it seems to me, is getting close to the point where money itself will not bring...
...hard-driving young leaders have rushed Phoenix and Arizona into a glittering new era, but they well know that they have not licked all its serious problems. For one thing, the sense of unlim ited expansion space is deceptive: the U.S. and the state government own an amazing 86% of it. In the limited area left, fast and loose land speculators have driven up prices; some desolate North Arizona acres shot up from $150 to $1,000 in the last year...
...hundred shares of some stocks can drive the stocks down several points. The drift has moved many professionals to sit on the sidelines and wait for a selling climax. In market folklore, a heavy trading day with the ticker running late on the down side is just the thing to clean out the fainthearted in one fell swoop, stop the market from dribbling lower every day. Since such a clean-out is impossible in the economy as a whole, the pessimists will have to bear their mood of uneasiness patiently until the dyspepsia passes...
...emphasizing the sullen good looks the kids are supposed to go for. For six weeks Rod toured the country wooing the jocks, bouncing from teen-age dance to teen-age dance, and occasionally refreshing himself from one of the inspirational books he always carries with him, e.g., The Greatest Thing in the World (love, naturally). No rock 'n' roller, Lauren delivers his ballads in a nappy, relaxed voice with the meticulous articulation and slightly teary quaver that Johnny Mathis made popular. Not the greatest thing in the world, but not too bad for a 19-year...
...compact car: the Comet. Planned as the successor to the defunct Edsel, the Comet is longer (wheelbase: 114 in.) than most other compacts, will sell at less than $100 above the Falcon. Ford hustled to get it out because the compact car market is proving to be the hottest thing that has happened to Detroit in years...