Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant part of Henry Luce's genius was his ability to bring together talented people of widely varying backgrounds and points of view to work in concert. Though he was a courtly and compassionate man, Luce also had the magisterial presence of a Koussevitzky. Tall, erect, with clear blue eyes that could rake a room like a laser beam?or twinkle as merrily as Mr. Pickwick's ?he talked with a staccato concentration of word and thought that one associate described as "jammed machinegun" style. And, as his pastor, Dr. David H. C. Read, noted last week, "he listened...
...Apollo, built by North American Aviation, is by far the biggest, most sophisticated space vehicle ever made. It is to the Gemini what a Boeing 747 is to a DC-6-roomy enough for a man to stand erect and move about, equipped with space luxuries such as hammocks for stretched-out sleeping, hot and cold water, even a toilet...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May is still slender and pridefully erect-but she is far more than merely a remarkably handsome woman. She is heiress to a food fortune of well over $100 million, a celebrated hostess and philanthropist, an avid horticulturist, antiquary, boxing enthusiast and square-dance fancier. In Palm Beach (where she winters), the Adirondacks (where she summers) and Washington, D.C. (where she spends the spring and fall), Mrs. Post is a grande dame of high society. "Everything she touches turns to beauty," says Lady Bird Johnson...
...already, with no rehearsal space, some acoustical dead spots, a dusty stage that choked the singers, and a dingy exterior. Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home, desperately needs the $488,000 annual rent it will collect from developers planning to erect an office building on the site. Even so, as wreckers began tearing up the roof and stage, A. & P. Heir Huntinqton Hartford, 55, perennial patron of lost causes, warned dolefully: "This is going to give America a black eye for years to come...
...pleasure to announce that contracts for the new construction have now been let. Meanwhile something more than $1 million is still required properly to equip the new areas. And in the not distant future $5 million will be required to raze the Huntington Building and erect on that site a new structure for teaching and research...