Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Residue. In his silvered pressure suit, Astronaut Shepard seemed a creature from another planet as he stepped out of a white van into the baleful Florida dawn last week. He glittered under the searchlights that surrounded the rocket pad as he made his long-legged walk to the gantry elevator that would lift him to his capsule. When he rose to the "greenhouse," an enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft. level, technicians helped him squeeze through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business...
...they say, Loeb Director Robert H. Chapman is in an impossible position. Answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, he has been forced to walk a tight-rope all year. As a result, he has had to adopt a conciliatory, rather than positive, attitude. Students were not happy to see spats between Chapman and eminent visitors Eric Bentley and Lillian Hellman, and they fear that other New York theatre personalities may now hesitate to come here...
Leading the way for the Crimson (if you can say such a thing when 11 different players hit safely) was senior centerfielder Dick Shima. All he did for the afternoon was hit three triples, two singles, drive in six runs, and walk once...
Males, at least, are too weak to run or even walk to their neighborhood stores, but presumably viewers bite hard on the products hawked; stations have signed up avidly since Debbie's program was syndicated in September. Not long ago, Debbie, the divorced mother of a twelve-year-old boy, was part owner of a chain of unsuccessful reducing parlors and sole proprietor of a thoroughly successful figure (she says she had "a figure problem" once, after her son was born, but cured it with disciplined self-torture). She persuaded WHIO-TV in Dayton to pay her $20 each...
...Ragbag. There are critics who argue that the buildings are so far apart that they lose all relationship to each other. Corbu replies that he designed it with the measure of man in mind. One unit of measurement was the distance that a man can walk in an hour. For the interiors, he used his mystifying modular-a personal improvisation on the ancient Greek Golden Section based on the harmonies of the human body. This is one Corbuism that even his admirers find difficult. Says Editor Banham of the British Architectural Review. "It is a ragbag of ideas...