Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this pacifist parable based on C. Virgil Gheorghiu's 1950 novel, the peasant hero is presented as an inexorably cheerful Candide who earnestly tries to say something favorable about World War II but merely sounds like a man looking on the bright side of the ax that is cutting his head...
...President, the Vice President, and America's First Lady were at the gravesides, and millions watched on television as the Apollo astronauts were laid to rest last week: Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee at Arlington, and Edward White at West Point. Of all those who paid tribute to the three who died earthbound on a launch pad at Cape Kennedy, no one put the meaning of their deaths into clearer perspective than the Rev. Conrad Winborn, pastor of Ed White's home church in Seabrook, Texas. "Let us not expect to sing the victor's song," said...
...pressurized, they reclined in a row on padded couches in their cylindrical Apollo capsule, running through the countdown of a simulated launch, a routine but rigorous rehearsal for the real thing. They had been there 5 hrs. 31 min. when fire exploded in the cabin. Within seconds, Lieut. Colonel Virgil...
...history of mankind's progress, the conquest of space symbolizes one of man's oldest, most basic drives: the hunger for knowledge, the lure of every new frontier, the challenge of the impossible. And that is the legacy left behind by Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee- just as it was by men like Marco Polo, Magellan, Charles A. Lindbergh and Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic memorial bears an inscription from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Virgil I. ("Gus") Grissom, 40, Lieut. Colonel Edward H. White, 36, and Lieut. Commander Roger B. Chaffee, 31; in an explosion while testing their Apollo spacecraft; at Cape Kennedy, Fla. (see THE NATION...