Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portholes into the icy East River, where they were picked up by tugboats. A coolheaded crane operator at dockside lifted more than 1,000 men off the flight deck on a portable platform. In one spectacular rescue, firemen ran up a 50-ft. vertical ladder, then stretched another ladder horizon tally from the top to a porthole, and pulled 26 men to safety. Most of the dead were suffocated by smoke...
...Preparedness: "I do not believe that we as a nation have mobilized the capabilities we have to anticipate the problems that exist even on the near horizon...
Another tilt with the law proved more serious. Hulme was sent down from Cambridge for punching a policeman. He left town astride a coffin in an undergraduate mock funeral. Disowned by his family, he spent eight months roughing it across Canada. The vast sky and the flat horizon-reaching grasslands left him with a numbing sense of oppression, "the fright of the mind before the unknown" that he came to believe "created not only the first gods, but also the first...
Slowly, as the Election Day sun rose off the horizon, Jack Kennedy's old cool confidence reasserted itself. Returning to his home at Hyannisport, he posed for photographers with Jacqueline and little Caroline, then changed into slacks and a sports shirt and relaxed. Once, he and his brother Bobby went outside and tossed a soccer ball around for a few minutes, though even this momentary fling lacked the old Kennedy flavor of sibling aggressiveness. The rest of the time Bobby kept close to his own home (a stone's throw away from Jack's), where...
...Kennedy's language is "elevated, even literary, for this man is something of an artist with words." Last week Joe Alsop, who likes to set himself up as the most doorbell-ringing of all the political pollster-reporters, could see only one storm cloud on the Kennedy horizon-the religion issue...