Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Elsa, 5, 300-lb. lioness-companion of Mrs. Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife who recounted her pet's half-domesticated, half-savage career in Born Free, one of 1960's top bestsellers; of undetermined natural causes; in the Kenya jungle. Taken in by Mrs. Adamson as an orphaned cub, Elsa slept, ate and played with the Adamsons for three happy years until they reluctantly returned her to jungle freedom, from which she would re-emerge periodically to show off to them her own three cubs...
...point more emphatically, the Chinese Communists are paying for more and more trips to Red China by Latin American labor leaders, politicians and students. In 1958 the number of visitors was 165; in 1960 it was 470. As soon as the tourist arrives he is greeted by his personal companion, guide and persuader. He is comfortably established in Peking's Peace Hotel, filled with good food in one of the hotel's two restaurants (one European, one Chinese) and then taken to hear the joyful songs of peasants toiling in the communes, to watch workers boosting norms...
...expendable plastic firing tube. Each firing tube may be used several times, and a G.I. can carry at least five of its rocket charges. Every bit as powerful as the two-man, 20-lb., $175 bazooka it is meant to replace, the "XM-72 Rocket Grenade" is a companion piece for the foot soldier's 90-mm. recoilless rifle. Between the two, says the Army, ground outfits will have the antitank weapons they need. "We hope to issue them like hand grenades...
...hangar bay and in the compartments above the main deck Constellation became a giant bake oven. The racing flames, fed on a maze of wooden scaffolding and trash that littered the decks, ate hungrily through fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they were picked...
...historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark Jr. and Newscaster Quincy...