Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of exhibits around the theme "Chal lenge to Greatness." Cost: $17 million. » NEW JERSEY'S TERCENTENARY PAVILION, designed by Philip Sheridan Collins, will be a cluster of small pavilions, the roof of each suspended by a cable from an overhead mast, like bobbins from a spiky ring of fishing poles...
There was no shortage of problems. In Moscow, dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared, "France must sign." fully aware that De Gaulle has no intention of joining a test ban. Another question was how to ring in Red China, which is expected to explode an A-bomb by year's end. Since Peking had not yet done so, Gromyko said, the problem was "artificial." Anxious to keep the talks going. U.S. officials grasped at straws -and hopeful phrases. "I don't think this closes the door," said one. "It's just atmospheric noise...
...tanbark trail, the top status symbol is a private stateroom in the circus train. The occupant is always a center-ring star. As Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus last week moved out of winter camp just south of Sarasota, Fla., and began its 93rd national tour, one stateroom was reserved for the youngest person ever to have one-an 18-year-old girl...
Word Eater. She worked seven days a week, three hours a day. Where others often get much of their training as apprentices performing in public, she held out until she had perfected herself to the caliber of the center ring. Carrying a large plumed fan and wearing golden shoes, she is the new star of the traditional aerial ballet-one of the circus' four production numbers-and people of the circus have already compared her with the late, indubitably great Lillian Leitzel, who died 26 years ago in a fall in Copenhagen...
...experience it describes. Its author is always in perfect control of style and structure. Its theme is the death of innocence; a prep-school boy moves to the disillusion of adulthood by causing, in a half-willed way, the death of his best friend. It is a book that rings in the mind long after the reader has finished it, whose reverberations fill a shape far larger than the one set down on paper. Knowles's second book, Morning in Antibes, did not ring in the mind. His third novel will be published in the fall...