Word: affectionate
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...black Thunderbird rolled off a Ford plant assembly line, a worker affectionately scrawled in soap on the hood: "Bye, bye, baby." It signaled the end of the two-seater T-bird; this week Ford put out the car's 1958 successor, the ballyhooed four-seater. Ford's affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek...
Bright, hard-charging Newsman Reynolds, onetime (1938-41) White House correspondent for United Press, was hired by the late Merchant Prince Marshall Field on the recommendation of their mutual friend, Franklin Roosevelt, who once showed his affection for Reporter Reynolds by sending his wife two dozen roses on the birth...
For above all, Western Europe hoped that the summit meeting could counter and reverse the decline in Western prestige since Sputnik. In this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike...
In a very particular sense, the menacing Russian advance was no surprise to Edward Teller, 49, the rumpled, shaggy-browed, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist, the "father of the H-bomb" and now associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific...
Who Is God? There is an almost antlike scurrying to repair this break in the ordered rhythms of life. Friends and relations bring the offerings of their affection and experience; widowed Mary Follet, though splintering within, turns uncomplaining to her God; her agnostic father rages as man always has against...