Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acre farm in the Pyrenees. But Annabella, the beautiful French movie star of the 1930s who went to Hollywood, married Tyrone Power, and became a U.S. citizen, still feels the lure of her name in lights. Popping up in Paris to see herself in a revival of Rene Clair's 1931 screen classic, Le Million, Annabella, now a graceful 53, enjoyed the movie hugely. "It brought memories of an unforgettable youth-like an immense burst of laughter." She was sad, though, about one thing-the U.S. citizenship she gave up to return to France to care for her ailing...
...astronaut's wife needs a sense of humor to weather the high risks of her husband's job. explained Rene Carpenter to the National Council of Women. For example, she said, take Jo Schirra, 38, whose husband Walter recently returned home safely after orbiting the earth six times. At one point in the program an admiral thoughtfully reassured the spacemen's wives that if by any chance the parachute failed and the capsule sank, an explosive signal device would automatically detonate, thus alerting recovery forces. "Oh?" said Jo. "So they'll know where to drop...
When their second child, Timmy, died at six months in 1951, the tragedy brought the devoted couple even closer together. But when Carpenter was first called to compete for assignment as an astronaut, Rene gave him all her encouragement. At one point, after Carpenter was assigned to sea duty, she got word that he would have to tell Washington immediately if he wanted to continue in the space-training program. Without hesitation, Rene accepted on his behalf...
...Prayers. Rene wanted to share her husband's flight in the only way she knew how. Though the wives of Astronauts Shepard and Glenn had stayed away during their husbands' flights, she decided to go to Cape Canaveral last week ("The Navy brought me down, and friends gave us a house stocked with food"). She spoke to Carpenter on the phone just before liftoff, then took her children to the beach to watch the shoot. She said no prayers. "I feel the same way as Scott," she explained, referring to Carpenter's conviction that it is presumptuous...
...Rene admitted: "The effort involved in one of these missions is such that at the end we often feel emotionally drained. We tend to fall back on comfortable phrases and words like 'happy,' 'proud' and 'thrilled,' and we feel so much more. I want to say especially that not once in the past three years would I have had Scott do less than he did today. For us, the family who also served, the rewards were very great...