Word: hectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winners: History: Constance McLaughlin Green's Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878; Biography: Leon Edel's two-volume continuation of his life of Henry James, The Conquest of London and The Middle Years; General nonfiction: Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August; News photography: Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas; Cartoon: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing: Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle; Local reporting not under deadline: Oscar O. Griffin Jr. of the Pecos, Texas, Independent and Enterprise; Local reporting under deadline: Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood...
...instrument, about the size of a TV camera, is called a radiation pyrometer. It was built under the supervision of Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, with the collaboration of Hector Ingrao, Research Engineer and Lecturer on Astronomy, who designed the device. The pyrometer is a product of the Observatory's Infrared Laboratory, established with funds from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...said to wear better and cost less to make. For the $700 million leather industry, which devotes 85% of its business to producing leather for shoe uppers, a challenge is at hand as great as the one that faced the textile industry a dozen years ago. Says Boston Shoemaker Hector Lynch, president of Howard & Foster Co.: "This may well be the nylon of the leather industry...
Similarly, Myra Rubin gives us only the madness of the Duchess; none of the tragic side of this eccentric character emerges. Lord Hector, the Duchess' companion, is meant to be a stuffed turkey and Atilla Dolanyi is a fine, pompous turkey indeed...
...intelligence, effort and honesty. George Lodge has all the attributes of an outstanding Congressman or of an adequate senator. His opponent might suffice in the House. But Teddy Kennedy, thirty years old, never held a job...you know the story...is taking odds like Liston. The hero knows how Hector felt, even if Teddy is no Achilles. The dilemma does not intimidate Lodge, but it must confound him: "Teddy is a nice fellow, I met him in Lagos. I'd be inclined to vote for him for District Attorney, but senator...