Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mano's narrator is Calvin Beecher Pratt, a timid, fat, white Episcopal priest who leaves a cloistered, scholarly life to take over a crumbling empty church in the imagined Harlem of the 1970s. There Pratt becomes inextricably involved with an anti-white Negro organization called the Horn Power Movement and its dynamic but tormented leader, George Horn Smith. Middleweight champion of the world, orator, professed illiterate and economic genius, Smith is a man possessed of a freakish protuberance-an eleven-inch horn jutting from his forehead...
...that speed, combustion chambers in the SR-71's two huge Pratt & Whitney J58 engines reach a temperature of 2,800°-hotter than any other operational engine. They gulp special kerosene-based "Lockheed Lighter Fuel, 1-A" at a ravenous rate...
Although this is his first appearance as a TIME cover artist, Wheeler, 33, considers himself an alumnus of Time Inc. Not long after he graduated from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, he went to work for LIFE. While there, he designed the series of advertisements that showed the LIFE logotype cutout of a long catalogue of items: IBM cards, theater tickets, miniature flags. Those Wheeler cutouts are now in the collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum...
John Galla, the B.U. student who assisted in Pratt's escape, visited Pratt and the other AWOL servicemen, Raymond Kroll, in Marsh Chapel Tuesday. Accordin to Galla, Pratt said then that he did not want any part of Resistance demonstrations, but wanted the opportunity to express his personal feelings about...
...After Pratt's disappearance a crowd of about 1000 gathered outside the chapel. Resistance members chained doors at the rear and sides of the chapel to keep out police and protect the remaining resister...