Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington is a would-be king and a want-to-be dynasty, not a President and a party." Blasting Kennedy for failure to exploit the "great cracks" that have appeared "across the entire slave empire of the Communist tyrants," he ad-libbed: "I'm beginning to wonder about this man who just three years ago downgraded the idea that we could achieve peace through visits and talks and goodwill missions, and who is engaged almost around the clock with visits and talks and good will missions . . . We have peace only because General Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles...
...Georgia Tech's Billy Lothridge, 21, is a one-man gang. He runs, he passes, he punts, he kicks, he calls 80% of Tech's offensive plays, and, what's more, he beats Coach Bobby Dodd at his own game: pool. Small wonder that Dodd calls Lothridge "the most valuable player in college today." It was Lothridge who, singlehanded, cost Alabama the 1962 national championship, using his talented toe to get Tech out of trouble nine times with punts that averaged 41 yds. and calmly booting the extra point that sent Alabama down to defeat...
...last word uttered by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on her deathbed in Paris in 1954 was "regarde." To her, it meant to look, feel, wonder, accept, live. For all her 81 years she obeyed that injunction with an immense, daylight sense of reality and a pagan delight in the sensuous experiences that delivered the world to her mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work-a moving but unsentimental record...
Walt Hewlett, Harvard's spindly new long-distance wonder, will face his first real test here today when the Crimson cross-country team tackles Cornell and Brown...
...play together as much as possible. On the first unit, at the ends are Peter Hall and Justin Hughes; at tackles, Steve Diamond and Alfred Davis; at guards, Joe O'Donnell and Steve Crosby, and at center Ernest Manders. The backfield finds Pat Conway at right half, Everett's wonder boy Bobby Leo at left half, Matt Donelan at fullback, and John Shelvy at quarterback...