Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...
Groping for Gravity. Last Wednesday the orbiter's Atlas-Agena boosters lofted the 850-lb. craft into a parking orbit, where it coasted for 28 minutes while ground computers honed its next course. Then, high above the Indian Ocean, the second-stage Agena engine reignited and kicked the orbiter into its precise moon-bound path. Two antennas and four solar-power panels snapped out, giving the space craft a windmill look. Guidance sensors aligned it with the sun; some six hours later, a star tracker began hunting for Canopus. When the sensor repeatedly failed to lock onto the guidance...
...take on civilian care, insisting that "our mission is to support our own troops." After a rash of plastic surgery for cleft-palate victims won the nickname "Operation Harelip" for all U.S. compassionate services, the Army officially put aid to civilians on an "emergency only" basis, partly on the ground that noisy children were disturbing sick servicemen...
Cooling the Militancy. Masons and Catholics have been on the outs ever since Pope Clement XII in 1738 issued the first papal bull condemning the Masons on the ground that their beliefs and rituals amount to a false religion. Catholics are still forbidden to join the Masons under pain of excommunication. For their part, the Masons have seldom been reluctant in the past to condemn the Catholic Church...
...Knights have altered the pitch of their national advertising from conversion to cooperation. Says Homer J. L'Hote, head of the Missouri Knights: "We used to try to make others see that we had the right religion. The attitude we now take is that we are on common ground with them, that we will work along with them." The ground has become so common that when Knights invite Masons to a joint meeting, the speaker is frequently a rabbi. Frank C. Staples, grand master of the New York State Masons, says that Masonic lodges are meeting the Knights more...