Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife Margaret in Medford, Mass. TT-4's legs were badly damaged, he told her. "They're trying to take us off." Back of her husband's words, Margaret Robertson heard "a loud crunching," as if the tower were being twisted by a monster wrench. Welder Vincent Brown reported to his wife that the tower had been swaying too much for work. "Air Force boys were forever kneeling and saying their rosaries. The horror of it was awful." Elnor Phelan, wife of TT-4's commanding officer, Captain Gordon Phelan, remembers that her husband called...
Leave the Pebbles. Their way of life, however, is pioneer Israeli. Three years ago a Parisian metallurgical engineer named Vincent Thibout, then 33, took his pregnant wife, Therese, to Israel, where they spent 18 months in a kibbutz (collective). He learned how to farm and speak a fluent facsimile of Hebrew; he strews his talk with as many shalom as an ordinary Frenchman with alors...
...neighboring peasants were amazed. The Parisians had rented 900 unfertile acres. "When we cleared away huge amounts of pebbles," recalls Vincent's great uncle, Chief Farmer Abel Thibout, "the peasants shook their heads and said, 'Don't remove them; they shade the soil and help the crops grow.' " But in eight months the city kibbutzers had cleared 185 acres and planted potatoes, beans, barley and other grains. Their potato crop astonished local government agriculture experts, and they have done so well with their other crops that government agencies have lent them better land, banks are considering...
...Founder Vincent Thibout had himself and his young son, Israel, circumcised when he was in Israel, but his followers emphatically deny that they are Jews or even judaisants-Jewish sympathizers...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Vincent Price and Betsy Palmer star in "Shame the Devil," a piece about the suppression of a salacious bestseller in a small-town library...