Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Rog- er Chaffee, 31, lay dead in the charred cockpit of a vehicle that was built to hit the moon 239,000 miles away, but never got closer than the tip of a Saturn rocket, 218 ft. above Launching Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy...
Weekends, he walks or sits in the backyard, always shifting to stay in the sun, and puts down his thoughts in a clear hand on the ever-present yellow pad...
Weekday mornings at 7:55 a grey Cadillac sedan calls for Gardner at his Chevy Chase, Md., home, and he usually jots down his day's agenda on a lined yellow pad during the 35-minute drive to his office. On Gardner's desk is a copy of an aphorism written in German by an unknown author: "Das Beste is gut genug"-the best is good enough. Behind the desk is a framed photo of the President with the inscription, "Now, John, I mean it. We must cut down on spending...
...week's visitors ranged from Hubert Humphrey to Helen Hayes, Bobby Kennedy to Cassius Clay. Today was the platform that Adlai Stevenson chose to rebut the Saturday Evening Post's article depicting him as a craven dove during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. It was the launching pad for Nelson Rockefeller's 1964 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the forum from which Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda apologized to the U.S. for the 1964 stabbing of Ambassador Edwin Reischauer, the program on which Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower spent the morning of their 50th anniversary...
...Ernst Klingsiek, scribbled Martens' words on a prescription pad - words that a Nazi judge soon called "worth five death sentences." Condemned to the guillotine. Martens spent a year in prison, mostly in chains, until his dossier was deliberately lost by a Nazi official who happened to be one of his ex-patients. Because officials dared not kill him without proper papers, Martens survived...