Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice of the first man on the moon quavered with emotion. His fellow astronauts were equally moved by the climax of their triumphant daylong sweep across the entire U.S. Mike Collins declared himself "proud to be an inhabitant of this most magnificent planet." Said Buzz Aldrin: "This is an honor to all Americans who believed, who persevered with us. We can do what we will and must and want...
...eloquence of the Apollo 11 trio provided the finest moments of Richard Nixon's elaborate state dinner in their honor. Nixon stage-managed the program for the ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel, summoning the Marine Drum and Bugle Corps from Washington, decreeing that a song be written and performed for the occasion. The President himself approved the menu right down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag. Pat Nixon personally okayed the table decorations, which included gold napkins and cloths, flower centerpieces and twinkling five-pronged candelabra...
...reality borders on fantasy. Many Americans still find it difficult to fully believe that their nation harbors an evil entity capable of stealing billions while destroying the honor of public officials, the honesty of businessmen and sometimes the lives of ordinary citizens. The evidence that it does these things and more has become all too credible. The image persists of the colorful gambler who speaks quaint Runyonesque, or the romantic loner ? Jay Gatsby, say ? who has his own somehow justifiable morality, or of the paternalistic despot who challenges society by his own peculiar code...
...organization's code of conduct was partly Maranzano and partly Mafia omerta, a combination of such qualities as manliness, honor and willingness to keep secrets. Its requirements have never changed. The penalty for breaching the code: death. Except for the Chicago branch, which has always disdained the ornate, members are bound by an elaborate ceremony of medieval hocuspocus. Flanked by the boss and his lieutenants, the initiate and his sponsor may stand in front of a table on which are placed a gun and, on occasion, a knife. The boss picks up the gun and intones in the Sicilian...
...partner in Loeb, Rhoades & Co.) and a multimillionaire at 71, Erpf is regarded as one of Wall Street's most secretive and successful adventurers, risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in quixotic, unpredictable enterprises, among them New York magazine. There is a $500,000 chair endowed in his honor at Columbia University, and another-of the wooden, folding variety-bearing his name at New York's Theater for Ideas, an intellectual audience-participation forum, of which he was a founding member. Four years ago, he married a woman less than half his age; he is now the enthusiastic...