Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better. As the satellite climbed toward orbit more than two hours after launch, the Navy communications ship Kingsport, anchored at Lagos, Nigeria, called it by microwave radio. Syncom II answered smartly, proving that its electronics gear was healthy. The satellite even bounced a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner back to the Kingsport...
Schwabacher's suspicion was fortified by the Boston Traveler yesterday afternoon, which ran a banner headline and several huge pictures describing the "scuffle" its reporter had with the demonstrators...
...other end of the standings, in ineffable New York Mets, with "Perfessor" Casey Stengel presiding, drew 922,530 shrieking, cheering, banner-waving partisans to the Polo Grounds last year. The Mets finished last by 60½ games. This year the bloom is off the sage. Big crowds still turn out when the Dodgers come to town, or the San Francisco Giants. But only 6,505 paying customers were on hand last week to see the Mets lose to the Houston Colts, 8-0-their 16th loss in 17 games. From somewhere amid the blank spots in the bleachers came...
...Dinh Nhu, who believes that the Buddhists are Red dupes, the militantly Catholic Diem has dragged his feet in implementing these concessions. Many Vietnamese Buddhists, says Nhu, "have become fanatic, lost their common sense, and are ready to follow anyone who knows how to exploit them under the banner of religion." This was the kind of dogged anti-Buddhist attitude that has dangerously undercut government support. Already one general has resigned his field command in protest over government bungling of the Buddhist issue...
...personality that enlivened four generations of American journalism. In Chicago it was the incomparable Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, in Washington the acid Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, in New York the swashbuckling Captain Joseph Medill Patterson. More recently, a raven-haired bundle of energy named Alicia Patterson Guggenheim bore the family banner with her Long Island tabloid, Newsday. Last week at the age of 56, Alicia Patterson died, and for the first time in 143 years no member of the dynasty ran a newspaper...