Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extent that publicity hurts their families. When the press names student leaders, for example, some fathers receive hate mail, lose business orders or feel subtle disapproval by employers. Some fathers are also public officials, an extra burden. The presence of the son of Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr., at the recent Harvard sit-in, for instance, was widely noted in press accounts. Like other prominent men in this situation, Seamans refuses to discuss the matter. Equally upset are the parents of some first-generation college students, including poor Negroes, who are baffled when their children seem to reject...
Daring or daffy as these ventures may be, none has attracted a more mixed assortment of self-styled adventurers than last week's transatlantic air race, a circulation-building stunt sponsored by the London Daily Mail. Held in commemoration of the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic, by two British pilots in a Vickers Vimy biplane in 1919, the race had 390 entrants from ten countries competing for $144,000 in prizes in such bizarre categories as the best performances by a Swiss or a resident of New York State. The contestants included onetime Racing Car Champion Stirling Moss...
...Peebles, who shared a Nobel prize for his part in the research that made polio vaccines possible. The experts do not intend to minimize the importance of vaccination against tetanus, the infection that usually results from deep and dirty wounds in which the tetanus bacteria can thrive without air. Every year it kills almost 200 Americans, the doctors point out in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...night of Dec. 29, 1940, St. Mary took a direct hit during one of the Luftwaffe's heaviest air blitzes. Only the stone walls and the twelve Corinthian columns that had lined its spare interior remained aloft. After the war, the Diocese of London decided not to rebuild the church, since it stood in what had become the financial district of London. Too few parishioners lived within the old city's boundaries to attend it. Instead, the church was scheduled to be razed for a city redevelopment project -until dilemma and opportunity met in Westminster's quest...
...exterior stones was taken down, numbered, and shipped across the Atlantic. They were then reassembled on a knoll at the edge of the Westminster campus. Dedicated two weeks ago, the rebuilt church is complete with a new roof, new bells, new organ, humidity control and air conditioning...