Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step-grandson of Albert Warner, one of the founders of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Steel went to Harvard and later was first in his class at New York Law School. He does not really need the $10,500-a-year job at the N.A.A.C.P., but he likes the work. In his four years with the association, Steel has tried more than 75 cases across the country and has won a number of them...
Indeed, handling quick decisions aloft is a Schirra family specialty. Wally's father was a World War I fighter pilot who later barnstormed with his wife as wing-walker. Wally himself soloed at 16, and went into naval aviation soon after graduation from Annapolis. He flew 90 combat missions in Korea, shot down one MIG and scored one "possible." On the first unsuccessful attempt to launch Gemini 6, when the Titan booster belched smoke and flames without lifting off, Schirra correctly decided that there was no danger of an explosion. He made a split-second decision not to damage...
...imports, which will reach a sales level of well over 900,000 this year, a new auto-industry record would be merely an outside possibility rather than a virtual certainty. In any case, many of this year's buyers, whether they prefer U.S. or foreign models, plainly went into the market for the same reason: the time had come to trade in cars that they had bought during the previous record sales spree of three years...
...took root on America's rooftops, before Y. A. Tittle or Bart Starr or Jimmy Brown could create their instant mythology for the eyes of millions, a man often communed with his family or made a pilgrimage to nature to find solace for his workaday existence. Sometimes he went to a saloon or a ballpark. But now, each autumn Sunday, he turns to the TV set, and enjoys the drunken exhilaration of victories by Chargers, or Giants, or Packers. It is there, says First-Novelist Frederick Exley, 38, that contemporary man can find fantasy heroes...
...Cavers went to Japan in 1953 to help start the Japanese-American Program for Cooperation in Legal Studies, which sponsored the exchange of Japanese and American law students and professors...