Word: hay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paradox, Indian civil airline pilots fly more than 25 million domestic miles a year and jet fighters are being built in Indian factories by Indian workmen. Yet not long ago, when a plane landed for the first time in a district of northern India, peasants tried to feed it hay. The old ways die hard: recently a Westernized and highly educated dean of an Indian law school kept postponing his flight to the U.S. until an auspicious date was selected for him by his astrologer...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
...especially lucky at wooing. At a charity ball during his sophomore year at Yale, he was stricken by the blue eyes and golden hair of pretty Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter of New York's wealthy Republican Senator (1915-27) James Wadsworth, granddaughter of Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay, great-granddaughter of General James Samuel Wadsworth, whose First Division held heroically firm on Gulp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg (where Symington's grandfather, William Stuart Symington I, fought on the Confederate side as a youthful captain...
Attending a golden anniversary meeting of Old Settlers in the booming city of Tempe, Ariz. (pop. 16,900), Arizona's long-settled Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, 82, born in an Arizona hamlet once known as Hay den's Ferry (so dubbed after his father and now called Tempe), gave the youngsters in their '50s and his contemporaries some earthy advice: "Believe me, I don't take my work to bed with me. I always figured you couldn't solve any problems between the sheets...
Married. Kate Roosevelt, 23, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of California Congressman James Roosevelt and Betsy Gushing Roosevelt Whitney, adopted daughter of John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; and William Haddad, 31, crusading, prizewinning New York Post reporter; in Manhattan...