Word: crab
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Thanksgiving Day, when most of the U.S. was attacking a turkey with trimmings, John Courtney Murray, S.J., and TIME Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss sat down to scrambled eggs and Chesapeake Bay crab in a lonely roadside restaurant outside Baltimore. Being members of professions that work on holidays when there is work to be done, they were at work-on this week's TIME cover story...
When the paralysis reaches its full extent, Schary's Roosevelt experiences despair-"deep, sick despair ... the sense that perhaps I'd never get up again. Like a crab lying on its back." But he never complains, never makes others bear his moral burden. As the weeks go by, Franklin fights his way out of despair, out of an oppressive sense of permanent isolation from the everyday, active world he loves, out of nightmare fears that a fire may break out in the house and burn him alive while he lies unable to lift a finger. He fights...
After eight hours of sampling, the judges settled on a simple dish: dilly casserole bread. To homey, 56-year-old Mrs. Leona Schnuelle, Crab Orchard, Neb., went the $25,000 first prize. A veteran contestant, Mrs. Schnuelle has won such prizes as $500 (for judging cattle), a trip to Florida, an assortment of appliances and furniture. She tried nine times before she won the bakeoff...
...built for the U.S. Navy by Vitro Laboratories, can be adapted for commercial use. The Solaris is an eerie, Jules Verne monster that probes the ocean floor with four 500-watt floodlights and a television eye. When it spots a lost torpedo or other wanted object, a giant crab's claw snaps out, hoists the catch back to the surface...
Airlines and free reservations at such luxury hotels as the Habana Hilton. At rum-punch receptions and over dinners of Morro crab, the friendly visitor soaks up heady talk of revolution, sometimes from the "maximum leader" himself...