Word: vigillantly
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...Cape Canaveral, in U.S. missileland. On the hot, palmetto-studded beach, Photographer Stan Wayman, on assignment for TIME, set up his camera, trained its long telescopic lens in the direction of four gantry towers two miles away, and waited. The wait turned into a monotonous, week-long vigil. The monotony was relieved by the arrival of his wife with an ice chest and a bottle of champagne. It was the Waymans' seventh anniversary; they celebrated it on the beach...
Continuing Vigil. To some economists last week it seemed that inflation in the U.S. was just about licked. Noting declines in industrial expansion rates and stock-market prices in the U.S., Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told the World Bank-IMF conference that the U.S. "has arrested its inflation" (see BUSINESS). And Harvard Economics Professor Sumner H. Slichter, a "limited inflationist," noted critically that in putting "stability ahead of growth," the Eisenhower Administration had made "the most important economic decision since the Roosevelt Administration decided to aid workers in bargaining with employers...
...meet the bus again on the next night and the next and the next. Each night from then on, as 13 years passed, Fido met the bus from San Lorenzo and waited patiently under it for his master. The local butcher gave him meat and bones to support his vigil. Villagers greeted him with cheering words. Sometimes, on chilly nights, the bus company even permitted Fido to do his waiting inside, instead of under the bus. And each year, though hard pressed to support her own household, Carlo's widow raised the money for Fido's dog license...
Persuader. In Denver, Alfonso Vigil, 27, telephoned police to report that he had just broken into a grocery, explained that Store Owner Raquel Cordova, 62, had dropped in, happened to have a gun, suggested he make the call...
Sweet Smell of Success. In Olympia, Wash., wrung out after an all-night vigil at a maternity hospital, proud father John Arends bent to kiss his wife as she was wheeled from the delivery room, caught a lingering whiff of ether, passed out cold on the concrete floor, was rushed to emergency for eight stitches in his face, repairs to two broken teeth...