Word: goddarde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WALTER T. GODDARD JR. Melbourne...
...foundations, translating his immense enthusiasm for aviation into generous grants that helped establish six schools of aeronautical engineering (including those at M.I.T., Caltech and Stanford), underwrote Charles A. Lindbergh's triumphal tours with the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and financed much of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's pioneering research in rocketry. Recruited into public service on several occasions, Guggenheim served as Ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933, then during World War II went into naval aviation and rose to the rank of captain. By then he had already founded Newsday with an investment...
...from a trip to Southeast Asia. She and Michael Morrow of Dispatch News Service were expelled from Saigon after attending the founding meeting of the Popular Front for the Defense of Peace. A post-doctoral student at Harvard last year, she is now teaching at Tufts and the Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change...
...tragic destiny of the defeated German soldier of World War I. The best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good medium for one's lifework"; his own medium as a writer was pity and terror, conveyed in compelling prose and an exact sense of both person and place...
Richard Nixon shared the week's mood. While the astronauts were still in danger, he immersed himself in their plight, received frequent briefings, and visited the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to get fresh information firsthand. The President discussed with Michael Collins, the former astronaut who is now Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, the inherent risks of challenging frontiers. Said Collins later: "He talked about the covered wagons going across to California. Those were brave people then and there were a lot of graves along the way. But they went ahead...