Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your May 27 cover; it is refreshing to see the face of such a distinguished citizen as Senator John McClellan. The time has come for all to realize Arkansawyers have come of age - we go to school, wear shoes and McClellan makes us proud to be from Arkansas...
With that age-old feminine talent for ferreting out secrets, mothers, wives and girl friends orbiting around the U.S. Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. got the word one day last week that it was testing time for another big one. All week explosions had been going off all over the world-the U.S. A-bomb tests in Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific-and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile...
...first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport. The search for machine and man safe enough to ferry him took nearly four years...
...volume shows the effect of Tillich's longer stay in the U.S. (he came at the age of 47 speaking virtually no English) as well as the services of his Harvard colleague, the Rev. John Dillen-berger, 38, who, says Tillich, "did the hard work of 'Englishing' my style." Existence and the Christ is written clearly and cleanly enough to make Tillich's theology accessible to any serious reader...
...heredity of an organism be altered after conception? This age-old problem has now been attacked from a new angle: ducks. The doers are Professor Jacques Benoit, who holds the chair of histophysiology in the Collège de France and has studied the reproduction of ducks for 20 years, and Pierre Leroy, a Jesuit priest-biologist and refugee from Red China...