Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilots and engineers at California's Edwards Air Force Base knew Captain Milburn G. Apt as a quietly amiable man who liked nothing better than puttering in his garden and playing with his kids. At 32, he had 3,500 hours' flying time, a good World War II combat record, and seven years of flight-test training to his credit. It was a record that a few weeks ago brought him one of the Air Force's top test assignments: a chance to pilot the world's fastest (an estimated 2,000 m.p.h.), highest-flying (almost...
...colleges it is not possible to find this pure form of collegiate democracy in such a complete state. At Yale, in fact, those slightly academically or socially unaccepted students receive names such as "weenies" or "turkeys;" at Harvard they are occasionally dubbed "wonks;" and even at Wellesley students are apt to meet "Peter Pans." Yet at Tufts students are able to treat classmates with the type of mutual respect which eliminates such groups of the "unaccepted...
...small in itself, but the sound of it carries a very long way. The reverberations of the culminating symbol: the tree of life that bears the fruit of death, a death whose other name is love. For Western movie goers, the reading of such symbolic language is apt to be as tiresome as the study of Chinese script; but fortunately, Director Kenji Mizoguchi (who also made Ugetsu) has provided the picture with physical as well as spiritual beauties. It has colors that are often exquisite; and it has Machiko Kyo, the heroine of almost every important Japanese film of recent...
...missiles and interceptors. Flying "on the deck" is better in many ways. Radars usually cannot see a low-flying fighter-bomber, and most missiles cannot attack it effectively. Its bombing can be made extremely accurate, but if it uses any ordinary bombing system, such as dive-bombing, it is apt to be vaporized by the fireball springing up under its tail...
...hillside villa overlooking the lazy River Lahn, lives a storm center of European Protestantism. Rudolf Karl Bultmann, 72, napping in his book-crammed study or limping through his grounds with his wife and daughter, does not look like an intellectual tornado. But in Germany, where ideas are apt to detonate like buzz bombs, sending shock waves through university faculties, student cafés and editorial rooms, the ideas of Rudolf Bultmann have set off a major furor...