Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Things a pen hardly dares to write...
...notch to 98. First Bertrand Russell, 90, turtlenecked civil insurgent, resigned as president on the grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused to talk about Vanessa's reason for bombing the bans: "I cannot say anything more than that...
Awaiting his turn in the starting pen, Engan spends half an hour putting a glassy wax surface on his skis. Then he is on his way, whistling down the slide, tucking his body into a ball to get more speed. Soaring high above the hill, arms pressed tightly along his sides, body tilted forward until his nose is inches from the tips of his skis, Engan has perfect balance. "Until I touch down," he says. "I could just as well close my eyes...
Dickens takes the count after approximately two minutes and 35 seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
Armed with blank check, ballpoint pen and driver's license for identification, almost any American can cash a check at his friendly neighborhood supermarket or liquor store. This shirtsleeves casualness about money has ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...