Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner, MATS commander; Lieut. General John Gerhart, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs; General Henry ("Hank") Everest, commander, Tactical Air Command...
Four years ago John Friedlein and William Miller, who teach chemistry and physics at the high school (683 students), began agitating to remodel their dingy classrooms (built in 1926), which seemed closer to the Bronze Age than to the Nuclear Era. Robert W. Schaerer, a rare kind of school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond...
...into Space (CBS, Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is made up of the best kind of science fiction: stories that come as close as careful research can bring them to becoming documentaries of tomorrow. The adventures of Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...
Mary Shelley came by her headstrong ways naturally. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a brilliant champion of women's rights and social revolution. Her father, William Godwin, was also one of the morning stars of reason and reform in the last years of the 18th century. Both advocated free love and reluctantly ignored their teaching to marry just five months before their daughter's birth. Yet from the day of her elopement, Mary Shelley suffered continual persecution not only from Shelley's family, but also from her own father, whose contempt for convention stopped abruptly...
...their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...