Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balancing and clinging miraculously with one arm, raised the other high, as one would a torch, holding a bottle of plasma, pouring life back into a broken body. I think I have never seen a soldier kneeling thus who was not in some way shrouded with a godlike grace and who did not seem sculptured and destined for immortality...
...more" here than meets the eye may sometimes verge on the sentimental. But no combat soldier will think for a moment that this quota of sentimentality is unusual. It was often a saving grace, and so Mydans uses it. He can remember the day when, boarding the U.S.S. Enterprise in 1940, he, as a photographer, was sent below with the enlisted men, while his companions, writers, were berthed in "officers' country." Today, even if the same discrimination were still being practiced, Writer Mydans could move in with his fellow writers...
...wedding was to be a small one, in a country church, before a congregation of rural neighbors. But not since the Grace Kelly nuptials has there been such an international fooster as last week swirled about a wedding in the Norwegian town of Sogne (pop. 4,000). While 150 newsmen and photographers trampled gardens and graves, while 5,000 curious visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom...
...into action at long intervals, and with suitable musical accompaniment. The result would certainly startle the unwary passerby, and the fact that his Tangibles are wholly abstract may count against them in the eyes of most park commissioners. But Lye remains firmly wedded to abstraction. "These are for grace and power of motion," he explains, "not for imagery. They are not supposed to be like anything...
...deal came too late to refurbish the shabby hotel for this season, but Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast...