Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giggle at First Sight. Young Christian, born to Albert and Adele Herter in Paris, grew to be a strikingly tall, alarmingly thin lad who had to wear hip-high steel leg braces for six years to correct a curvature of the spine-forerunner of the osteoarthritis that was to afflict him in later years. ("I had no trouble with it for 40 years. Then it came back. Retribution, I guess.") He became a passable golfer, tennis and baseball player during his Harvard years (he is still an avid Boston Red Sox fan), but despite these normalities, many of his Harvard...
...cabin. And then, just before he completes the first orbit, a query will come from earth: Is the physical condition of the vehicle and his physiological condition adequate for another or possibly two more orbits? He will have to search the ship, his body, and his soul for the correct answer to this question. No doubt he will have every indication that his ship is adequate. He will know little about his physical state. His heart he hears as it pounds in his ears, and he will feel grateful for this. The question from the ground will give him more...
...bitter little speech to his countrymen. It contained an odd digression. Lashing out at British "wire-pullers" almost as if the British forced him to the step, he conceded that the decision had been made "quickly-but I must say in retrospect that it was well considered and correct. My decision is intended to ensure the continuity of our policy for years to come. The position, task and work of the federal President is underestimated; it is much greater than generally believed. I would like to say that the attitude of the federal government in foreign policy questions will...
...East Germany's real cool cats were concerned, those Communist cubes over at the Ministry of Culture must have flipped. The music for the Lipsi, the German Democratic Republic's newly authorized, ideologically correct song-and-dance craze, sounded like a South American nightmare with a boogie beat. It was nothing but a hopped-up minuet in 6/4 time -bogue*, man, real bogue.-The dance steps themselves looked like a mixed-up rumba, laced with old-fashioned open steps that led to a kind of shimmying amble-ticky, man, real ticky...
With two more weeks to correct their sprints and polish their bladework, the boat will be ready to show its mettle against Syracuse, M.I.T., and B.U. It could be a pleasant day for Leavitt...