Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to go full steam ahead until the old boiler bursts," says the Rev. E. Stanley Jones, whose fame overseas as an American evangelist is matched only by Billy Graham. Jones was formally retired by the Methodist Board of Missions in 1954, after 47 years of work -but retirement meant only that he was freed from all church assignments to set his own unflagging pace. In 1963, for example, he spent six months hopping from one missionary outpost to another in Asia and Latin America, filled 736 preaching engagements, spent his vacation writing his 24th book, a spiritual autobiography. Last...
...York World's Fair. Anthony Linck took the two-page overall view of the Fair site from a helicopter with a camera built from parts of a Fairchild K-20, a Linhof and a Speed Graphic, with a hood made from a cooking pot off a restaurant steam table. Going to press with the RELIGION color pictures of Pope Paul's pilgrimage was a problem of speed - as well as stamina and a little bit of luck - for a crew of photographers working under the general field guidance of Rome Bureau Chief Robert E. Jackson and Beirut Chief...
...former admiral of the fleet and himself First Lord of the Admiralty, he is obviously the saltiest of salts. Except that he isn't. "This happens to be the first boat show I have ever been to," he confessed. And having let that out, he plunged full steam ahead. As a small boy he had capsized a good many more dinghies than most other small boys, and apart from "a bit of paddling" about the Mediterranean during the war. he really wasn't the least bit qualified to open the exhibit. In fact, he said, throwing...
...Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money to be made in short-line railroads these days if you know how to go about...
...inside out with new products. "I'm angry with kitchens," says he. "Once you fix them, you can't change them." Polk would like kitchen equipment to be as movable as living-room furniture, wants pool-sized bathtubs for the whole family, electronic-memory bathroom scales, home steam rooms, and laundry equipment that will wash, dry and fold a towel in seconds...