Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date. Rejected by the Air Corps during World War II because he was under age, Grissom applied again when he turned 18, spent his wartime service as an aviation cadet. After his discharge, he got a mechanical-engineering degree at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force in 1950 to stay. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean War, later became a hot-shot test pilot. He had a passion for speed, on water, land or in the air: he took up powerboat racing, teamed up with Astronaut Gordon Cooper to buy a piece of a racing car entered...
...members of religious communities are the only ones who can change them. To stay within the community and help renew it according to today's insights is, I think, very worthwhile. A seminarian friend of mine put it in a nutshell: "We are not in the real 'light of Vatican II' as yet; we are only at the dawn of a stormy day. But we have the opportunity to determine the weather. We can't go south for the winter; we have to stay and bring about the spring...
They made a slightly unlikely pair of jet-set Bedouins. Novelist Truman Capote, 42, took the road to Morocco with his old pal Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, Jackie Kennedy's sister. Though Lee's husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, had to stay behind in London, she and Truman were off for a vacation that will last, as Truman announced in his adenoidal purr, "as long as the country is interesting." Settling briefly at the new Rabat Hilton, Truman explained: "I came because Lee was here twice last year and she was so enthused. Lee as usual is riding...
...domestic chain, operates 34 hotels, plus two Nile-plying cruise ships. The company has reported revenue increases of almost 200% over the past five years, estimates that 1966 income will rise to $122 million. Its hotels are located along a necklace of cities that would start even a stay-at-home packing. Among them: Acapulco, Paris, Athens, Bangkok and Hong Kong, all on present or pending TWA routes...
...Richard Quine like cars in a well-run elevator bank. Something is always moving, nothing is ever out of control. The color is warm, the performances are solid, the talk is sensible-much more sensible, in fact, than it was in the novel. Paying guests will have a pleasant stay in this Hotel, and experience a mild but genuine regret at checkout time...