Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawaii is a geographical midway point for a rendezvous with a wife or a sweetheart for five brief days. The expense can be staggering, even though Hawaiian hotels offer a discount to military personnel. But month after month, more R&R-ers (some 7,290-odd) take the long trek to Hawaii than anywhere else...
...Boris Chaliapin has done well with his portrait of Rudi Gernreich, but what are the two things behind him? Refugees from Star Trek maybe? HARRY PRESTON Detroit...
...Eisenhower, nominated to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this month, sees news, sports and, at times, movies and specials. Physicist William Pickering, whose Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed U.S. unmanned space probes from Explorer 1 to Surveyor 6, likes a preposterous piece of space fiction, Star Trek. J. Edgar Hoover is strictly business: No. 1 on his most wanted list is The F.B.I...
Ferocious Union. De Kooning no longer needs to worry about money or renown. His latest oils, priced from $12,000 to $55,000, will almost certainly be snapped up. Critics and scholars besiege him for interviews. Artists trek to his doorstep. Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum will mount a full-scale retrospective of his work next September, which will tour London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
With his newfound political knowledge, Willie made the trek to New York in 1963, where he met the traditional rebuffs at the surly hands of cabbies, waiters and landlords. "I had known Mississippi rednecks," he complains, "mother-killers, grandmother-killers, sixth-year graduate students and spitballers who threw at your head; but I had never run up against people so lacking in the human graces." He found that New York literary types were not much better. One after another, the idols of his boyhood came tumbling down when he met them in the flesh...