Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespearean Epic. Queen Elizabeth, who was notified of Churchill's death before it was officially announced to the public, took the unprecedented step of requesting Parliament to accord her former Prime Minister a state fu neral, the first such tribute to a commoner since Gladstone's death in 1898. Churchill will be buried in a tranquil Oxfordshire graveyard beside his parents: Lord Randolph Churchill and his beautiful American wife, Jennie Jerome...
Project Gemini is now about 18 months behind schedule. Next step, if no more trouble develops, will be a two-man, three-orbit flight some time in April...
Justification for the historic step came from Swiss Reformed Theologian Lukas Vischer, 34, in a report on the third session of the Vatican Council. Vischer, a World Council observer at Vatican II since its beginning, argued that despite the reluctance of some conservative Catholics to build links with other churches, the council's decree on ecumenism "is an obvious effort to overcome the estrangement of centuries and bring about a relationship of mutual respect and understanding. Whether we like it or not, we find ourselves in fellowship with the Roman Catholic Church. Withdrawal into our own domestic affairs...
When a dozen highway patrolmen emerged from Sproul--bent on moving the public address system forward to clear the top step--a roar of protest went up from the crowd...
...public-relations man "to get the union's image improved." Though the Government made no move to intervene in their strike, waiting for another vote, the shippers petitioned Washington for compulsory arbitration. Gleason then called a new contract vote for this week. Meanwhile, the striking dockworkers never broke step in their picket lines, and dared anyone to cross them. No one tried...