Word: pilgrimate
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Huguenin said yesterday that he submitted the idea last fall. The vehicle would be called Pilgrim and is intended to look at the sun's radio emissions in ranges not detectable from earth, Huguenin said...
...today is known mainly for its hounds, carpets and pistachio nuts. Its rugged, ruin-strewn terrain is still strategically important, the geopolitical crossroads between China, Russia, India and Iran. But centuries ago it was a well-traveled highway. Remarked Hsüan-tsang, a 7th century Chinese Bud dhist pilgrim, of this 800-mile bridge between the East and West: "Here are found objects of merchandise from all parts...
...case in point was Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, hero of the New Left and a recent pilgrim to Hanoi, who chided the President for not doing all he could to make contact with the Viet Cong. Why, said he, it was as simple as picking up a phone and calling Prague. "I did it myself last Friday morning. Within an hour and a quarter I was speaking to a front representative who, incidentally, was fluent in English." CBS Radio decided to give it a whirl, spent 24 hours trying to contact a Viet Cong agent in Prague...
...shoes. Never has high-fashion footwear been so low. When models didn't walk barefoot, they paraded out in flat Mary Janes with straps round the ankle or across the instep. What heels there were, came in the shape of round rhinestone-covered balls or thick Pilgrim squares...
...tiny fraction of the nation's 9,000-plane taxi fleet. Taxi companies range from one-man, one-plane outfits to Detroit's 28-plane Tag Airlines, which has 100 employees and takes in $1,000,000 a year. Typical of the type is nine-plane Pilgrim Airlines, which has tripled its business in five years (to 15,000 passengers a year) by offering six scheduled flights a day from New London, Conn., to New York's Kennedy Airport. The trip costs $14.50 and takes only 50 min. instead of the three hours by car. Such regular...