Word: eye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his final year here, Hynek will work to assure continuation of the Satellite Tracking Program and try to complete the initial phases of both the "Balloon" and "Cat-Eye" projects for his successor. The Balloon project deals with electro-optical technique for stellar photography, the Cat-Eye with manned and unmanned space flights...
...visits by Ike, brother Milton, and Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and the U.S. made sure that he would hit all the high spots. On the agenda: a White House state dinner, a day with Ike at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, a helicopter's-eye look at Gettysburg, an Ike-guided visit to the Eisenhower farm, dinner with Ike at the White House correspondents' dinner celebrating Eisenhower's 69th birthday. From Washington, López Mateos planned to go to Chicago, New York, the Canadian capital of Ottawa and then to Lyndon Johnson...
...Shakers distrusted the ornamental; they avoided both "carpenter Gothic" and Victorian arabesques. Their furniture is functional to a T, and yet their tools are subtly shaped to charm the eye and hand. The Shaker wheelbarrow opposite, for example, looks as elegantly clean-lined as a Ferrari...
...really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping the ephemeral sweetness of things. His garden drew from him a typically overtrained, anxious and caressing response: he found the lichen "as gorgeous as an Aztec or Maya mosaic," and the moss "of a soft emerald that beds your eye as reposefully as the greens in a Giorgione or Bonifazio...
...Charles Greenough Mortimer, 59, was elected chairman of General Foods Corp. He will continue as chief executive officer, a post he has held since 1954, when he was named president of the nation's largest packaged-food processor (Jell-0, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods). As chairman, a previously vacant post, Mortimer will concentrate on the company's future growth and development. Succeeding Mortimer as president is Wayne C. Marks, 55, who will also be chief operating officer. Marks joined General Foods in the position of clerk in 1926, was appointed executive vice president...