Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution, Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., presented his silvery space suit, boots, helmet, and the small American flag he carried on his historic triple orbit to the National Air Museum. He also noted his Friendship 7 capsule, already on display. "This is somewhat of a reunion." said Glenn in wry reference to the capsule's world tour and his own full schedule of public speeches. "We've both got a lot more mileage on us than last year...
...Papiamento (a Caribbean lingua franca), started his collection only in 1959. But he had a head start: his father, an insurance broker, has been reading TIME since 1935, and had saved many back copies. Randall now has 402 covers signed by subjects, among them Konrad Adenauer, Moise Tshombe, U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard and Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe (who signed in red ink), J. Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet's Dalai Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers...
...ceramic sandwich seem practically endless. Westinghouse is already planning to build them into remotely controlled locks for car trunks or motor hoods. They show promise of great value as relays for operating switches at a distance. And in the not too remote future they may help an orbiting astronaut make his way around his zero-gravity spaceship. Weightless, the space traveler would float aimlessly. With ceramic sandwiches in the soles' of his shoes and small batteries in his pocket, he could walk up metal walls or cross a ceiling using only a pair of pushbuttons to control his magnetic...
...bring their husbands to hear her, blue-suit and brown-shoe types that have never seen a nightclub. Like Rusty, they all seem at home in a barnyard. They sit there and roar happily as Rusty expresses her desire to become the first woman to make love to an astronaut in space. The women fans wear Knockers Up buttons. They know her five LP albums by heart (more than 3,000,000 sold so far). They have made her a $5,000-a-week nightclub star, outdrawing Mort Sahl and Shelley Herman. After all, Rusty comes of a fine background...
...bulk of the season's books appear to have been written in an afternoon, then printed early next morning. There are countless books filled with topical trivia, like Countdown for Cindy, the story of a blushing girl astronaut. There are stacks of books so eerily old-fashioned that their manuscripts must have been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert...