Word: rigidities
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...National Assembly and won, he was denied his seat on the ground that he had made "false promises" in his election campaign. Bitterly, Ngo Dinh Diem's critics label his system "Diemocracy" ? democracy in form but not substance. Diem merely shrugs. The U.S., concerned with his rigid inflexibility atop an insecure nation, also presses for a change in policy. But Diem is a stubborn man, and the U.S. is wary of the charge of "interference in internal affairs...
...customary bird's nest. Barely acknowledging the thunderous ovation that greeted him, he began his lecture on ethics where he had left off the day before, on the phrase of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come." Christians, he said, should act not according to rigid principles, but only according to what their faith tells them is God's will in Jesus Christ. "Christians should be free," he said, "to give an attenuated yes or no-according to circumstances-whenever an absolute categorical position is expected of them and a categorical yes or no whenever no such...
Around the Skeleton. An interested spectator at the Civil War balloon experiments was a young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
...cruised over the Arctic Circle and around the world, traveling more than a million miles before it was decommissioned in 1937. But after three disasters, when the U.S. Navy's dirigibles Shenandoah, Akron and Macon were wrecked with a total loss of 83 lives, the U.S. abandoned its rigid-airship program. The spectacular explosion of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst in 1937 put a final end to the dream of Zeppelin...
...this lively upbringing. Eastern prep schools-Hotchkiss for John and Lawrenceville for Clint Jr. -had something to teach, but seemed rather tame. "It's a great shock for a Texas boy to go to an Eastern school,'' says John. "The Eastern boys were more formal, more rigid in their habits. Down in Texas you start driving a car earlier, running around with girls earlier.'' John went on to Yale, Clint Jr. to M.I.T. John admits that, except for bistros and girls, his freshman year at New Haven was "pretty much of a loss...