Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more to Carpenter than break his left leg and collapse a lung; it changed his life. Lying in a hospital bed for two weeks, Carpenter decided the time had come to settle down. He went back to the university, met and married a pretty, vivacious usherette named Rene Price, and planned to become a Navy pilot after graduation. Despite his new determination, Carpenter found he still could not pass a course in heat transfer that he needed for his degree. But the Navy somehow assumed that he had completed work for his degree and took him back. Seeing a career...
BLONDE, bronzed, deep-dimpled, green-eyed and shapely. Rene Carpenter, 34, is by anyone's standard a dish. She is also self-possessed and wise. Wearing a navy blue skirt and white middy blouse, and carrying a red scarf in her hand, she stepped before newsmen at Cape Canaveral after her husband's space voyage was over. Said she: "I was dry-eyed the whole...
...brooding person by nature." Discipline. Rene (she rhymes, it with keen) met Scott Carpenter in Boulder in 1947, when he was a university student. She was a movie house usherette and sang in a local Methodist church. A little more than a year later, they were married. As a new Navy wife in the 1950s, Rene got the basic training that pilots' wives have to expect-the hard discipline of waiting at home for word of safe landings...
...flying on a project and did not come home by 6 o'clock," she has said, "I just knew I was a widow. I remember wondering once how I was going to greet the chaplain when he came to the door." In the years since, Rene has absorbed her husband's quiet fatalism...
...choice, near Avignon. Against her had been lodged only the minor civil charge of using a false identity card. Her husband remains in Cell 57 of Sante Prison, preparing to go on trial for his life next week. His request to subpoena President de Gaulle and ex-Presidents Rene Coty and Vincent Auriol among 39 defense witnesses has been refused. But he has been granted use of an electric razor to shave off the mustache he was wearing as a disguise when captured...