Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami last week, one man who had spent three months in the Brazilian embassy reported that 97 people were living in the garage and two small servants' rooms. "We received one meal daily, composed of a big spoonful of rice and one of some pottage." Outside, militia patrols delight in firing shots to fray the asylees' nerves. Friends or relatives who come by to wave are roughed up; those who try to bring food are searched and insulted. Every so often the embassy's water is cut off for two or three days at a time...
Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from...
...simply that one American housewife was terribly proud of Mrs. Kennedy. I think it's marvelous that we have a First Lady blessed with grace, intelligence and the ability to delight heads of state and whole nations with her femininity...
...city's main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs have decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...
National Open Golf Championship (NBC, 5:30-7 p.m.). A duffer's delight: the Open's last four holes...