Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward the end of the week the President, like many another American, flew off for a long Fourth of July holiday. It was a time for rest. At the family compound of summer homes on Cape Cod, only a small handful of White House aides mixed in with the gathering of Kennedys, in-laws and close friends. Yet with the Berlin crisis looming large, national policy would surely be discussed-and formed -around that ever-influential forum, the dinner table of old Joseph Kennedy...
...robes billowing in the summer breeze. There were Anglican bishops, Scottish and Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...
...long-nosed rocket that rose from its pad at Cape Canaveral last week contained the most practical crew of explorers yet launched into space: a three-part package of instrument-crammed satellites. Heftiest part of the load (175 lbs.) was Transit IVA, latest of the Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller...
...tour of this country is being sponsored by the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Information Agency. After seeing Harvard and M.I.T. yesterday, the group now leaves for Langley Field, Norfolk, Va., Cape Canaveral, Seattle, and San Franciscoto unclassified areas in U.S. military operations...
When Painter Charles W. Hawthorne first came upon Provincetown, Mass., in 1898, it was a fishing town inhabited mostly by Portuguese who had scarcely ever seen a tourist, let alone an artist. Today the quaint town at the top of Cape Cod is a bustling art colony overrun by tourists, and no one doubts that Hawthorne-one of the great art teachers of his time-was above all the man responsible...