Word: onwardness
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...doing?" the scientists will ask. "What's the extent of high-energy radiation, the density of cosmic dust, the temperature, the quality of magnetic fields? What's the weather like?" And the answers, delivered by radio into machines on the rotating earth will push the dialogue onward, enabling man one day to launch himself into space...
Three men of widely differing temperament, views and backgrounds stand out in the white communities of eastern and southern Africa facing the onward rush of black nationalism...
...hero forges onward and downward, square-jawed and indomitably prissy, his footsteps are dogged by the usual unmitigated cur (Thayer David), and loyally followed by four trite and true companions: a plucky youth (Pat Boone), a good-natured giant (Peter Ronson), a beautiful widow (Arlene Dahl) and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude. (The widow, of course, is present over the hero's most passionately prudish protests. "But madam, think!" he gasps. "The lack of privacy...
...Forcing onward on his U.S. tour (TIME, Jan. 4), Britain's doughty Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 80, steamed by train into Pittsburgh, hit his typical stride by riding from his Pullman sleeper to the depot on a baggage cart. After being pushed some 300 yds. (the length of eleven passenger cars) by a Pennsylvania Railroad cop and a Pittsburgh Symphony flack, Sir Thomas met the usual pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays...
...scrap. Anita O'Keeffe Young,* still ambitious and aggressive at 60-plus, quit to express her opposition to cold, stolid Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67. It was a bitter end to a 25-year association. Kirby's inherited Woolworth millions had bankrolled Bob Young from the 19305 onward, had put him in command of Alleghany, which controls the New York Central Railroad, the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services group, and 50% of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Class B stock. Last week Wall Streeters were betting that Anita Young would place her considerable savvy and stockholding behind...