Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature that emerges from prison is as various as Mein Kampf and Pilgrim's Progress. But the authors usually share a common conviction. More often than not they are men who regard themselves as unjustly condemned. In that company, Jailbird Jean Genet is a rarity; he has no complaint against society at large, nor does he whine that he took a bum rap. His latest book, Miracle of the Rose, is neither by an outsider looking in nor an insider look-ing out. Imprisoned for theft, Genet belonged behind bars-not only legally but spiritually. He writes...
...Commuter Airlines into a bustling business that today has a monthly haul of 3,500 passengers from such places as Ames and Sheboygan, Wis., to Chicago. Midstate Air Commuter Service in three years has built a profitable business linking the isolated paper-industry towns of Wisconsin to Chicago. Pilgrim Airlines of New London, Conn., which currently shuttles to Kennedy International Airport 74 times a week, in four years has raised its monthly passenger load from 60 people...
...Jack, the aging jalopy jockey from Lowell, Mass., swings to a beat of his own. The pad-dwelling poets are looking elsewhere for a laureate. Kerouac, 44, has let them down. He is a true pilgrim, and his objective is not the future but the past. The latest fragment of his nonstop autobiography records, of all things, a search for noble Kerouac ancestors in ancient Armorica (Brittany) just as if he were some crude millionaire of the Gilded Age shopping at Heralds College for something fancy in the way of ancestors. That Kerouac has simple faith became evident long...
...first phase of the Pilgrim Project is already under way, Huguenin pointed out. He has already given Avco a $149,000 contract for the construction of an instrumented spacecraft to test some of the Pilgrim equipment. NASA has approved this contract...
...hopes that this test vehicle, to be called Probe I, will be sent up near the end of this year. It will not orbit the earth, and its flight will last for only 30 minutes, he said. The test vehicle will include one of the two antennas planned for Pilgrim and two of the three spectrometers. Probe I will be launched from a NASA base in Virginia...