Word: longing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week both sides of the House rose to cheer Churchill as he shuffled to his accustomed seat. It was his 85th birthday. After hearing congratulations from Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tory House Boss R.A. ("Rab") Butler, the old man rose slowly to break his long parliamentary silence. His speech in full: "May I say I accept most gratefully and eagerly both forms of compliments." Afterward, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated the anniversary at their Hyde Park Gate home, which they had fled a day earlier to avoid getting underfoot while the chef and a platoon...
...child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For a time he worked in Manhattan in a millinery house, where he was assigned to the ostrich-feather department. Before long, Marek gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular music critic of Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. In 1950 he made a pitch for the advertising account of RCA Victor...
...morning last week, the long, lanky balloon rose slowly from a sheltered valley in the wooded hills outside Rapid City, S. Dak. Climbing slowly into the far blue sky, it gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look...
...inside. But they ran into immediate trouble. Take-off had been delayed for three hours by a minor fire in the gondola, and by the time the balloon reached 80,000 ft., Venus was too low to catch in the telescope. They were forced to wait all through the long...
...factory for the needy, several island fishing villages. They showed up at a Hindu wedding, wandered through a Macao gam bling casino, edged to within 100 yds. of Communist China. A U.S. consular official gave them a two-hour briefing; veteran New York Times Correspondent Tillman Durdin conducted a long bull session on Red China. Equally educating were the solitary strolls that many took through teeming Asian slums, a revelation to youngsters whose lives have been confined to comely U.S. suburbs. If education means widening perception, Teacher Jaeger is on to something. Muses Student Dave Newby, son of a Cleveland...