Word: moon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resist a good band." Next day, his pants rolled up, he tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot of ale. Near Shrewsbury he donned a pair of hastily bought gum boots for a plowing and hedging contest, sloshed over 17 acres, talking farming...
Since its yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 10--By this morning a mighty Thor-Able rocket may well be on its 2 1/2-day flight toward the moon. Provided, that is, all goes well--and the odds on even partial success are rated no better than...
...rocket will be aimed at a spot in space about 137,000 miles ahead of the moon's position at the time of launching. The hope is that the moon and the satellite would rendezvous somewhere near each other 2 1/2 days later...
There's a shiny new moon, maybe...