Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Okay, American . . . This is Cessna 163. American, you're pulling ahead...
Stultz's last words got cut off, and in the American cockpit the crew froze. "We thought he had bought the farm," says Moran [meaning that he had cracked up]. But Stultz came back on, called happily that he had spotted an air marker on a roof below. It told him that he was above Coeymans Hollow. Albany Tower, checking with state police, informed Captain Moran that Stultz was only 20 miles south of the field. Moran radioed...
...Europe there is no street quite so lively, quite so cosmopolitan or quite so zany as Rome's Via Veneto-the broad, tree lined avenue known to Italy's American colony as "the Beach." And for a decade past, the heart of the Beach has been the polyglot, block-long Caffé Doney. There in the soft Roman night, Italians and tourists alike sat till the wee hours beneath bright sidewalk umbrellas, sipping whisky, apéritifs or coffee, and watching the Via Veneto's endless parade of smartly dressed girls, pomaded gigolos and international celebrities, ranging...
Parents who have been confused by conflicting advice from psychologists and guidance counselors on problems of child discipline-especially spanking-got commonsensible reassurance last week from the University of Chicago's Child Psychiatrist John F. Kenward, 46, father of two. Discipline, Dr. Kenward told the American Academy of Pediatrics, is not only necessary, but it should begin at home and in infancy...
...face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could it be that all or much of that picture had been sham? That was the most disturbing question raised by last week's Washington hearings on the scandal of the television quiz shows...