Word: wondrousness
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...friends to a stag banquet at the U.S. embassy residence in London. There was Sir Winston Churchill, still game, who had flown up from the Riviera. There were Field Marshals Montgomery and Alanbrooke, sharp critics of Ike's leadership, whom the President greeted no less warmly. In a wondrous who-sits-where session for the photographers, the President, much as he did in the old days, finally got the British generals where he wanted them (see cut). And at dinner, amid old reminiscences, old discords faded...
...crackling curve, and slick Johnny Antonelli (16-6), the pop-off lefty whose feud with newsmen is so bitter that he issues statements only through Manager Bill Rigney (dubbed by the press "John's other voice"). To hit, the Giants have the bull-necked Cepeda and the wondrous McCovey. Out in centerfield, Willie Mays, 28, is beginning to make the awesome plays in Seals Stadium that he used to pull off in the Polo Grounds. Most important of all perhaps, the Giants have a grim determination to win. After a defeat, the team's locker room bristles with...
...humor, and political sophistication, Gibney describes how paradox has become a law of life in a country where a dedicated Communist (Premier Gomulka) collaborates with a dedicated Catholic (Cardinal Wyszynski) to check both hothead Marxists and anti-Marxists. The result, reports Gibney, can sometimes be as bewildering as that wondrous two-headed animal of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories, the "Push-me Pull...
...first radars of World War II could detect invading aircraft (giving the R.A.F. a big advantage in the Battle of Britain), but they were not much good on smaller targets. Modern radar is vastly more sophisticated, and a wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
When Nixon made his celebrated race for the Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...