Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualified for pilots' wings. Or padded cells." But he slogged stubbornly on to audiences with two dictators: Salazar of Portugal and Franco of Spain. The Task Force was impressed by both men. "Today Spain and Portugal have comparatively flourishing economies," wrote Hearst. "You can walk the clean streets safely at night. Peace and prosperity prevail. And both countries are solidly in the ranks of the West. If that is the result of dictatorship, I say make the most...
...sick and faded shades of pink and green. Gum wrappers and blobs of melting ice cream litter the floors; jammed in the corridors are scales, fortunetelling machines, knickknack shops, gum dispensers, rusty refuse baskets, and hundreds of blinking neon lights. To get to and from their planes, passengers must walk nearly a quarter of a mile. This week Los Angeles' embarrassment over this disgrace came to an end as Vice President Lyndon Johnson dedicated the city's new $70 million jet-age terminal...
...airport is decentralized, with seven individual terminals for the air carriers. Each oval-shaped terminal has a check-in building connected to identically designed satellite buildings with lounges and restaurants. Each satellite will have ten gates with telescopic loading platforms; from car to plane, passengers will only have to walk 600 ft. and all the satellites will be linked by cable cars. In the center of the complex will be the airport's most dramatic structure: two 135-ft.-high parabolic arches suspending a restaurant with a 360° view, 70 ft. above ground...
...league baseball's only midget (3 ft. 7 in.), hired in 1951 by promotion-prone Impresario Bill Veeck, then boss of the fanless, feckless St. Louis Browns; in Chicago. In his one time at bat (against the Detroit Tigers) during his brief playing career, Gaedel drew a walk. A few days later, after Veeck had threatened to use him as a pinch hitter every time the bases were loaded. League President Will Harridge canceled Gaedel's contract "in the best interest of baseball...
...Brothers M, by Tom Stacey. Another novel of Africa in which a black and a white student first tightrope-walk and later trip on the color line...