Word: kiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warmth folk-ins have attracted as many as 120 people, Somit said, but a dozen people has been a good crowd for other nights. Activities planned for the future include non-verbal communication experiences, kite fly-ins on the Charles, body paint-ins, and reverse trick-or-treat, with volunteers going from house to house distributing candy...
...attitudes and behavior. The effect may be profound. Allan Leitman of Boston's Educational Development Center warns that TV is creating a generation of spectators. "Kids come into school today," he explains, "and they wait for people to tell them things. Without handling frogs or flying a kite, they lead less of a life. We're moving along in a mold that will produce people I can't even imagine." Many parents, shuddering at the heavy dose of violence on the screen, foresee a generation of juvenile delinquents. TV heroes, they complain, do not merely administer justice...
Jewish Blues. In other short stories, Ronald Sukenick coolly chronicles a tale about some free-floating hippies flying "an impossible, ultimate kite" over the East River; and Philip Roth incants a Newark ghetto boyhood in The Jewish Blues. ("The goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon...
...ripe old age of 44, Air Force Colonel Robin Olds really should not be flying anything hotter than Charlie Brown's kite, but with four kills in his F-4C Phantom, he is the leading combat pilot of the Viet Nam air war (TIME, June 2). Now the Air Force has finally found a way to keep him down on the ground with the other old folks. The 1943 West Point graduate and World War II ace (twelve German planes) has been named commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, effective...
...Princes are like to heavenly bodies," Sir Francis Bacon once wrote, but who would ever think that the Earl of Snowdon would take him so literally. There was intrepid Tony, 37, hanging onto a 15-ft. by 12-ft. yellow kite and soaring 70 ft. over the surface of Bedfont Lake in Middlesex. Already an expert water skier, Lord Snowdon managed the tricky take-off on his first try, stayed aloft for ten gusty minutes. There was no word on when Princess Margaret would attempt a flyin, but Tony had their five-year-old son on water skis the next...