Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read Stevenson's entire Chicago speech and excerpts from that speech in TIME, and I gather from the tone of that speech that Mr. Stevenson would be Mr. Khrushchev's choice for our next President. I was sickened to think that a man of his stature could say the things he did. I sincerely hope that the Democrats relegate him to obscurity...
They had their vanities: rarely does a headdress, the embroidery on a skirt, or the design of an arm band appear more than once. The small figures gather at carnivals, dance through the night. Even a venerable magistrate, his robes of office wrapped about him, cannot suppress his mirth. A housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush...
...magazine illustrator turned portraitist and Southwest landscape painter, who in 1898-when his wagon broke down while he was on his way to Mexico on a sketching trip-stayed on in Taos, N.M., founded an artists' colony that attracted Max Weber, John Marin. D. H. Lawrence, Willa Gather and Mabel Dodge Luhan; of bronchial pneumonia; in Albuquerque...
Thus, if an instrument-packed spacecraft were to land softly on Mars to observe Martian weather, soil, vegetation and earth tremors, the information that it would gather might be bottlenecked forever by its slow-acting transmitter. Then, says Van Allen, will be the time "when it will be more efficient to send up a man or a party of men to make observations, digest them and transmit back what is roughly equivalent to a monograph on the subject." Only half facetiously. Van Allen has one more idea about the advan tages of men over instruments in space: "There are many...
...hour one morning a week and let Math Professor Bernard Gundlach lecture to 2,000 teachers. KYW's Garroway fans howled (phoned one irate viewer: "What's that clown doing on the air?"), but the teachers think it is great. An hour before the kids arrive, teachers gather around school TV sets as Gundlach demonstrates the new approach to math. By lunchtime, many have put the ideas into practice...