Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Editor Champ Clark, who edited Jaroff's story, was astonished when his wife and four children, aged eleven to 19, insisted on rising with him in the middle of the night to keep check on Apollo transmissions. Senior Editor Michael Demarest, who laid aside his editor's pencil long enough to write the lead story of the flight's significance, had to deal with four children whose godfather, a space scientist involved in getting man to Mars, had made them extremely sophisticated about the precise details of the voyage. Ronald Kriss, whose own two children were...
...that has confounded many a diplomat. At the 1959 Geneva Conference of the Big Four, a protracted dispute was finally ended when the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to sit at a round table while the East and West Germans sat at small, square, separate tables precisely six pencil widths from the main table. To solve the present impasse in Paris, some officials have suggested that no formal tables be used-but then the negotiators would argue over the size and shape of the coffee tables that would be needed to accommodate their ashtravs, water pitchers and doodling pads...
...while armed terrorists covered him from nearby hiding spots. The van was loaded with 300 Ibs. of TNT, 30 Ibs. of gelignite and several cases of scrap metal to serve as shrapnel, all topped by beer bottles filled with a mixture of oil and gasoline. He set a small, pencil-shaped fuse timed to explode an hour later, and was three-quarters of a mile away when he heard the blast. He escaped by hiking the 22 miles from Jerusalem to the Jordan River...
...audience trailed in to hear his Kirkland House speech, Goodwin sat calmly at a table in front, fingering a Mark Cross pencil and spinning a copy of John Brown's Body. He eyed the audience intently to find out just what kind of people he was addressing. Yet he spoke quietly, without the rhetorical crescendos expected from a writer of Inaugurals, and did not seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument...
...took one look around and decided it was time to stop providing free entertainment. So he scrawled a check, watched the stubby pencil OK the releases (which had to be mailed to the Registry, with $1 each). Then he strode down the hall and out the door...