Word: affectionate
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Sprinting along the fringes of space, 21 miles above the earth, NASA Test Pilot Joe Walker last week gunned his rocket-powered X-15 to the greatest speed any airplane has ever achieved-an imagination-defying 3.920 m.p.h. In the nose of the X-15, a grapefruit-sized electronic wizard...
Died. The Rev. Henry F. Gerecke, 68, Lutheran minister and longtime Protestant chaplain to several penal institutions who served as a chaplain at the Nürnberg war crimes trials after World War II, won the affection and trust of several high-ranking Nazi prisoners (among them: Julius Streicher, General...
Jean Genet has been in prison, and his insights into the smothered aspirations and inarticulate regrets of jailed men are occasionally penetrating and even beautiful. But Louis Lopez-Cepere as the effeminate kid, Maurice, and George Quenzel as the poseur, LeFranc, shout and gesticulate until you can no longer hear...
Syn FELICITY, BEATITUDE, BLESSEDNESS, BLISS: HAPPINESS is the general term denoting enjoyment of or pleasurable satisfaction in wellbeing, security, or fulfillment of wishes (pleasures may come about through chance contact and stimulation; such pleasures are not to be despised in a world full of pain. But happiness and delight are...
Died. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, 75, tall, rugged ramrod of the Pacific War who led the first successful U.S. ground offensive against the Japanese at New Guinea's bloody Buna Beach, later commanded the famed "Amphibious Eighth" Army in more than 60 amphibious assaults, and was the first U.S...