Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: A rugged (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), fit-looking man with close-cropped, sandy-grey hair and an airman's horizon-seeking eyes, Radford is both a hard, ruthless fighter and a military scholar. He shuns formal society, when possible, prefers a quiet evening at home, reading or tinkering with his cameras...
After countless sketches, Designers Zehrfuss, Nervi and Breuer had hit on an unusual, Y-shaped Secretariat, gracefully modern yet low enough (seven stories) to fit into a new site near the Eiffel Tower without overshadowing the classical architecture of neighboring buildings. The new plan calls for a building resting lightly on stiltlike pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates...
...home to his Bloomsbury basement flat. So was the London press corps, as the major had intended. "I did it for the publicity," he confessed disarmingly. "For 14 months I have been out of a job, and I'm broke. I wanted to prove that I am still fit, useful and worth employing." There were four job offers in no time, but before accepting any, the police advised the major to drop in at the local station for a little chat. "They tell me I can be jailed [possibly for six months]," said the major, as if remembering that...
Because the Court had vetoed the Oklahome and upheld the New York Fineberg law, Oklahoma representative Bill Shibley, author of the first law, changed his to fit the Fineberg pattern. The Fineberg law applies only to people who know the groups they are in are subversive. The new Oklahoma law provides for the Constitutional privileges of pacifists by inserting the clause "or render non-combat service" in the pledge to "take up arms in the defense of the U.S. in times of war or national emergency...
Moors Hall is like every other Radcliffe dormitory, only slightly more so. It is the largest of the Annex halls, and perhaps the noisiest; but, just as in the others, its 108 women find they can fit individual personalities into the demands of dormitory life...