Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holy Cross beat Dartmouth 31 to 8. but Dartmouth Man Rockefeller seemed to be running up plenty of political yardage. At half time, students marched onto the field to spell out a big N.Y., then shifted to make it N.R. In an open-air speech to undergraduates after the game, Rockefeller told a punny story about six men in a boat. When the boat capsized, another small boat came to the rescue, but lacked room to take all six aboard. "Can you float alone?" a rescuer called to a man still in the water. "Yes," he yelled, "but why should...
While the missilemen get the headlines, hypnotize the comic books and plan the nation's pushbutton defenses, a sizable band of Air Force planners are quietly at work developing that oldfashioned, tried and true device, the manned airplane. By their reckoning, the nation will need the manned bomber through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Their promising candidate to succeed today's B-52 bombers: the B70 Valkyrie, an airplane that makes Buck Rogers' spaceship look like a model...
...only five years. It will be costly: prototypes will run upwards of $150 million apiece, and the whole program will run to $3.5 billion by 1965. A Defense Department budget slash last week killed off plans for the last far-out supersonic interceptor, the Mach3 North American F-108. Air Force flyboys trust and hope that the $2.4 billion savings will help support the B70 project when it comes under the budget fire of the pushbutton corps...
...open-air market near Manchester last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, smiling in the hustings, took his stand alongside a gypsy fortuneteller's trailer, confidently told an audience of 300 tweedy housewives and white-aproned fruit vendors: "This country is better off today-better fed, better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout...
...unsafe for future Septembers, the proud old fighters purred peacefully over London for the last time. Hardly had Spitfire Sugar Love 574 passed out of sight of the nostalgic crowd on the Horse Guards Parade when its engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken Spitfire shot in, flaps down and wheels...