Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helping Hand. From the Noa, Glenn proceeded by helicopter, carrier and plane to Grand Turk Island for his two-day debriefing and the preparations for his homecoming. But he had time to go spearfishing and to lend a helping hand to Fellow Astronaut Scott Carpenter when a skindiver lost consciousness at a depth of 80 ft. Carpenter brought him to the surface, and Glenn hauled him into a boat, where the diver quickly recovered. Then Vice President Lyndon Johnson flew in from Washington to escort Glenn back to the overwhelming welcome at Cape Canaveral. "In my country," said Johnson...
...extraordinary publicity accorded Presidential press conferences invariably manages to lend a sense of urgency and drama to Administration announcements which they frequetly do not deserve. This is particularly true of the official chagrin Mr. Kennedy lately expressed over the grotesque size of the postwar emergency stockpile of strategic materials. Darkly, the President mentioned waste and profiteering, and encouraged Senator Symington's investigating committee to exorcise these ghouls as best it could...
...National Student Association, sponsor of the Freedom Fund, is acting under a resolution adopted at last summer's national congress directing the Association to lend full support to SNCC activities. Williams, a former student body president at Jackson State College, was thrown out of school early this year for his part in several segregation protests...
Less Than Omnipotent. Kennedy has come to realize that national and international issues look much different from the President's chair than from a candidate's rostrum. There are fewer certainties, and far more complexities. "We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy, quick or permanent solutions," he said recently in Seattle. "And we must face the fact that the U.S. is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, and that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution for every world problem...
...Needy. Ironically, more and more of the socialites are beginning to stay away from the charity balls that they invented; they lend their names and sometimes buy tickets, but they don't show. Says TV Veteran Maggi McNellis, wife of Art Gallery Owner Clyde Newhouse, and herself one of the busiest charity ball patrons: "When you get there, you look at your program. Then you look around the room for the people listed and you don't see them. I've been on ball committees and haven't gone myself." Says Party Arranger Elsa Maxwell...