Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the Washington Project What emerged was something different from the traditional "peace" activity. The old images--beards, guitars, a political philosophy tinged with the rosy hue of the non-democratic left--did not fit. But there were other differences in the group besides its cleanliness. With more than 5000 participants the Washington Project was the largest demonstration in the city in 37 years, according to a veteran While House policeman. Another change was the crowd's evident seriousness which attracted praise from notoriously hostile local police...
...knew John Glenn when, Ted Williams, the baseball player who served with Glenn in the Marines, a minister who was his boyhood companion in New Concord and remembers his enthusiasms for Glenn Miller and Buck Rogers, his old commanding officer in Korea, all provide chips of bright color that fit into the mosaic of Astronaut Glenn's life...
This was the moment. He had worked toward it for three years. He had suffered agonies of frustration. Now he was alone, flat on his back on a form-fit couch inside the instrument-packed capsule named Friendship 7. In an incredibly matter-of-fact voice, John Glenn began to count: "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six . . ." A great yellow-white gush of flame spewed out from the Atlas-D missile. For nearly four seconds, it seemed rooted to its pad in the space-age wasteland of Cape Canaveral, a flat, sandy scrubland dotted by palmetto trees and looming, ungainly missile...
...obvious respect for those listening, and imports an aura of friendliness, if not of vibrant warmth. Having a rather inexpressive face, he relies heavily on gesticulation--vast and frequent sweeps of the arm. He has a large head, set on broad shoulders and a stocky frame. His clothes fit loosely...
...President," she said, "is creating a handsome and responsible image of the American man." Ideally, she continued, men's styles should combine "Italian flair, classic British sobriety and American dash, functionalism and fit. In our President we have the man who fits this look perfectly." Only Irving Heller (sometime tailor for Harry Truman) demurred. He approved of the President's taste in shirts ("He has changed his collar space") but insisted that Kennedy's jacket buttons are "still...