Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started in the House Rules Committee, whose canny old chairman, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, 80, opposes the bill in its entirety. Peering owlishly above the top of his spectacles, "Judge" Smith labeled the bill "as full of booby traps as a dog is of fleas." He hooted happily at Brooklyn's zealous Emanuel Celler, whose House Judiciary Committee had already cleared the civil rights bill. It had, said Smith, been "railroaded" through the committee...
...Cornell, the Lions could cause a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in Floyd Wilson's corner. Junior forward Neil Farber (6-1) is averaging 21.3 points per game and looks like a good bet for All-Ivy recognition. Stan Felsinger, a 17-year-old sophomore from Brooklyn, is the team's second lending scorer; although erratic, he averages 13.2 points per game...
...Sleds v. Tractors. In December and January, the Antarctic midsummer, icebreakers plow channels through the frozen sea for Navy supply ships, and McMurdo is almost as busy as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To support a population that reaches 3,500 at summer's height and will include 120 scientists this year, U.S. freighters and C-130 Hercules air transports shuttle in mountains of food and gear, haul back tons of scientific records and specimens to U.S. laboratories...
...service-a precedent that the Rev. William Bell Glenesk thinks has a lot of validity today. In the manner of an ecclesiastical impresario, he incorporates everything from jazz bands to barefoot modern dancers in his freewheeling, experimental services at the Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights...
...then a staid little parish faced with the prospect of expanding or closing shop. Much to the dismay of oldtimers at Spencer-one of them calls him "that big clown clunking around the church in leotards"-Glenesk decided to make a play for the newcomers in Brooklyn Heights, many of them arts-conscious, church-shy refugees from Greenwich Village. Glenesk has lost some veteran members of the congregation, but he has also brought to Spencer hundreds of people who never before bothered with church...