Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was more dignity than drama in Ike's final journey-and that is precisely how he wanted it. He had approved the arrangements as long ago as 1966, and they were carried out with military precision. At the beginning of the week, his casket was removed from Washington's National Cathedral. One witness of the transfer was Omar Bradley, 76, the last of the five-star generals, who saluted his wartime colleague with a sadly trembling hand. After the casket was taken to a spot near the Washington Monument, it was placed atop the horse-drawn...
...matches at M.I.T. will be the first in a grueling schedule of three matches in four days. On Thursday the netmen meet Amherst, which is reputedly strong this year, and on Saturday they will journey to Penn. Penn has a powerful team, and holds a big advantage on its hard courts...
...journey could be measured better in years than in miles or hours. As the nine-car train rumbled through Appalachian passes, it would cross decades of U.S. expansion as well?the scarred hills of West Virginia, the black earth of Illinois, the railroad yards of St. Louis and Kansas City. When it reached the prairies of Abilene, it would arrive in another era. In spirit, if not in time, the contemporary chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center where he will be buried was not so distant from the Abilene he knew as a youth...
...Administration is about to take another, and possibly decisive, step in the long, long journey toward a U.S. supersonic transport program. A governmental study group has split evenly between partisans of the plane and opponents. This gives the decisive vote to the chairman, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe, who is due by April 1 to forward a recommendation to the President for final decision. Says Volpe: "I don't see how the U.S. can afford not to go ahead with this ship. I don't want to see our country play second fiddle...
...Inner Journey--Hardly great, but still an interesting play by James Hanley. Jules Irving directed and the redoubtable Michael Dunn is in the cast. At THE FORUM, Lincoln Center, W. 65th...