Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect the Nashville bus riders, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy warned Alabama's Governor Patterson of U.S. concern with the case, considered sending in federal marshals, and dispatched Administrative Assistant John Seigenthaler to send back firsthand reports. Bobby Kennedy tried to get Patterson on the phone. But John Patterson, who loves to spout off about states' rights, was unwilling to take on the responsibility for maintaining law and order in his state. Patterson's office declared the Governor unavailable to the U.S. Attorney General. Later, at Bobby's urging. President Kennedy himself tried to call Patterson...
Airway Communion. Baptist Freed, who has gathered his knowledge of Russian hearts and souls firsthand in three extended trips through the Soviet Union during the past five years, finds the Russian response heartening. Even in the depths of Siberia he found families who listened regularly to Trans World broadcasts. Appreciative letters arrive each week from the U.S.S.R. A recent sample: "Peace unto you, our dear friends. We give thanks to our Lord for the privilege he gives us of listening to the loving Word over the radio. We are Christians living here in Moscow. The reception is excellent. We take...
...earthbound theory. The narrow blue band that Gagarin saw was the familiar color of the clear sky-the blue component of sunlight that the atmosphere scatters upward into space as well as toward earth. Still, all such details held a fresh fascination: they were part of a firsthand observation, an eyewitness confirmation. They belonged to a tale told by an adventurer into the unknown, and if they added little to man's knowledge, they glowed nonetheless with bright authenticity. Gaga had been there...
...force behind Abilities is its evangelistic president, Henry Viscardi Jr., 48, who knows firsthand the problems of cripples; he was born with stumps for legs. Until he was 25 years old, he hobbled about in cork-stuffed orthopedic boots, looking so grotesque that, he recalls, classmates dubbed him "the ape man.' Then a friend helped him get aluminum legs. Overnight he "grew" from 3 ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 8 in., became imbued with a fervor to give the same sort of boost to other handicapped...
...State Department's top Russian experts are chewing over the merits of an early face-to-face meeting between President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. Ambassador Thompson, just in from Moscow, reported that Khrushchev sorely wants to appraise Kennedy's personality and politics firsthand, argued that the Soviets would be unwilling to make peace in Laos or the Congo until they have heard more from Kennedy himself about his long-range intentions. Shaping up: a K.-to-K. confrontation, probably in April at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York...