Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officially presented to Americans by Senator Paul Hertz, West Berlin's Economics Minister, representing Mayor Willy Brandt. The exhibit, which will be in the Reception Center until Oct. 9 and then is expected to go to other U. S. cities, brings the Soviet-created Berlin crisis into vivid and frequently dramatic close-up focus. A large turntable rotates an illuminated color map of the divided city. Animated lighting depicts its air, waterway, rail and highway routes to the free world. Large panels of photographs show facets of life in West Berlin. Motion pictures catch the excitement of recent events...
...library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid enough to make a listener's head swivel...
Beedle Smith was a bootstrap soldier. He rose to the top of his profession without ever attending either West Point or college. As a small boy in Indianapolis, he listened to the vivid recollections of his German grandfather, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and decided he would become a soldier. At 15, he joined the Indiana National Guard. When World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars...
...Your vivid account of the Tour de France [July 21] reminded me of a day, almost ten years ago, when my girl friend and I achieved a certain celebrity in one of the regional bicycle races that precede the big Tour...
...retreated into the isolation of power so early. A gregarious man with uncommon social charm, Kennedy has become steadily less and less available to old college and political pals. Once the most accessible President the Washington press corps had ever known, he is now acutely sensitive to criticism. His vivid Irish wit flashes infrequently. One White House staffer who sees him daily says that even in the midst of briefings the President sometimes ceases to listen as he stares into space-apparently searching for the answer to some nagging problem...