Word: honored
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Consider New York Mayor John Lindsay's reply to the students of Rough Rock School on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. The youngsters had written a letter offering to take Manhattan Island off his hands for $24 worth of trinkets and beads. Replied His Honor, with equal seriousness: "Your offer falls far short of the current value of Manhattan Island-which has become the East Coast's answer to your own Monument Valley. Our unanimous judgment is that because of the enormous growth in building and population on Manhattan since 1623, combined with the creation of a modern...
...Order of Merit is the most coveted nonpolitical honor to which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death...
...page flight plan and the 1,000-page transcript of radioed conversations between the spacecraft and earth. After completing their debriefing, they will travel to Washington this week for a press conference in the State Department auditorium. On the following day, they will be guests of honor in a New York City ticker-tape parade up Broadway and a state dinner hosted by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Another parade a waits them in Houston on Jan. 13, and they have been invited to the Nixon Inaugural. There were rumors at week's end that the astronauts might also make...
...Point of Honor. A native of the Mississippi Delta, King left school after the ninth grade to work as a farm laborer. He learned to play the guitar from an uncle who was a Baptist minister, sang in gospel groups, performed for coins on the street corners of dusty Southern towns. In 1948, he moved to Memphis and started out as a disk jockey and singer, billing himself as the "Beale St. Blues Boy." That was soon shortened to Blues Boy, finally to B. B. (his real first name is Riley...
Despite temptations to slick up his style for commercial appeal, King has made it a point of honor to remain an uncompromising blues boy. "I'm me," he says. "Blues is what I do best. If Frank Sinatra can be tops in his field, Nat Cole in his, Bach and Beethoven in theirs, why can't I be great, and known for it, in blues?" Today the answer seems...