Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventeen minutes after the plane crunched to a stop on the ice cube, the men were safely in the air, bound for Newfoundland and home. The expert SAC crews who had participated in the rescue got a reward of Distinguished Flying Crosses and Air Medals, and the 20-man Ice Skate team came away with precious logbooks and a deserving niche in the saga of exploration. And behind them, still floating, was the disintegrating chip that remained of Ice Skate-a symbol of the mysterious mountains that crumble year after year before the determination of courageous...
...Welcome Home. Richard Gibson, in Manhattan from Paris for the publication of his new novel, A Mirror for Magistrates, points out that other Negro writers (Ralph Ellison, William Demby, Ben Johnson) have chosen Rome for their voluntary exile. He says: "All these people are in Europe because of social and political causes which everyone knows. The bright young white boys, after the end of their Fulbright scholarships, are able to return with reasonably light hearts to the dens of Madison Avenue or to the provincial Ph.D. factories. It is still impossible for an American Negro to return to the land...
...then, having told everybody what to do, Erhard headed home...
...forced their way into the building to join the fray. And where was Kishi? "In the toilet," someone said. The Socialists headed for the men's room to get their man. He was not there. As soon as he heard the bell go off, he had sneaked away home...
...rest after winning the governorship of New York State, Nelson Rockefeller went to a country that looms large in his career. Venezuela is the home of Creole Petroleum Corp., most profitable affiliate of the Rockefeller-founded Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and he once served on Creole's board. But Venezuelans rarely think of him as an oilman; instead, he is the single man who has striven hardest to raise the country's standard of living...