Word: condor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canonists, seminarians, as well as Methodist and episcopal laymen across the U.S., were raising eyebrows last week over an ordination as rare as the California condor...
...Dumbo, on Condor. Nothing like that happened last week. As scientists and spectators, including Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah and Congressman Craig Hosmer of California, watched from a shelter two miles away, Kiwi strutted its stuff without a misstep...
...mechanical hands will take it apart. The condition of its still deadly interior parts (examined by periscope, TV, or through thick, transparent shields) will tell the Los Alamos men much about how to build nuclear rockets that actually fly. The code names for them are ready: Dumbo, and then Condor...
...celebrate the event, and to exploit its publicity potentialities, the management of Soho's Le Condor nightclub thought up a special kind of party. The management called it "The Confidential Ball-dressed for exposure," sent out invitations to some 300 of Tony's friends, most of whom accepted. They arrived dressed according to instructions-in pajamas, bathing suits or just their underwear. Among the guests: Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 25, the sister of Lord Londonderry, Sir Hugo Sebright, 26, Daphne Pattine, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk, one Count Gerhard von Goerl, and a sprinkling...
Tony and about half the guests at Le Condor piled into their cars and roared off to see the sentence passed out. After first making sure that a press photographer was on hand, Tony was ducked, one girl jumped in all by herself, and everyone had a simply hilarious time until the police arrived and the deliquescent juveniles retreated to Le Condor for a nightcap. Tony promised that more was to come. "Everything has been as dead as a duck while I've been away," said he, "but that's all over...