Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Esplanade Concerts. Arthur Fieldler conducts members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in free open-air concerts every evening at 8:30 (except July 4) until July 10 in the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade. Take blanket and subway to Charles Station...
...vantage point, the Western powers confront the interior of the Communist world with a visible example of freedom in action. From Berlin, Western powers draw back their most accurate intelligence of what is going on in Eastern Europe. More important, Berlin constitutes the Soviet empire's greatest escape hatch. Through West Berlin every day there still pass some 250 East Germans-not just the aged and infirm, but the ablest and most vigorous citizens of an East German satellite crucial to Moscow's economic and political plans...
...Humphrey and Khrushchev discussed Soviet intentions in Berlin, and Humphrey was convinced that Khrushchev means business-up to a point: "I don't think he's going to back down, but I believe he's left a slight loophole or two-a slight escape hatch." Humphrey "hammered it in" that Americans regardless of political party affiliation, support President Eisenhower in his determination to stand fast in Berlin...
...converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins' Nautilus had portholes, searchlights, a tusklike bowsprit "feeler," and sled runners above the deck for sliding along the bellies of ice fields. Above the conning tower was a device for cutting through the ice, so that Sir Hubert could open the hatch at the Pole and pop out on top of the world. Leaky, her propellers serrated by chunks of ice, the ship turned back, and a relieved world smiled. But last summer, when the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nautilus followed in his wake and went on to the Pole, Sir Hubert Wilkins' face...
...Bradley died in the mad sea. Cries of struggling sailors grew fainter; the buoy flares were snuffed out. The three men on the raft spotted Deck Hand Dennis Meredith and pulled him aboard. They found five flares and a sea anchor inside the hatch of the raft. It was more than an hour later that they saw a rescue ship, the German motor vessel Christian Sartori. Fleming shot four flares, but the Sartori did not see them. Still the rescue ship, rolling as much as 50°, plunged toward the raft...