Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Defense Department created the Military Air Transport Service eight years ago, the Pentagon concluded hopefully that a consolidated airlift arm would end interservice transport duplication once and for all. It was a hollow hope, soon reverberating with echoes of Navy "logistic" transports and the Air Force's own private transports independently zooming off in all directions...
Outlook: Spaak was the first president of the U.N. General Assembly in 1946. In 1948 he called loudly and clearly for the West to organize and arm itself against the threat of Russia. Ever since then, he has been in the forefront of every effort toward European unity, impatient at "lip service" and "halfway measures toward that end as he has been active and ardent in support of practical progress." "To believe that we can still defend our selves, by ourselves," he told the Belgians last year, in support of NATO "is completely absurd." And he added: "For me, NATO...
Charles Pasche was born with no right arm and only a useless stump where his left arm should have been. Like many such "congenital amputees" (cause unknown), he learned to do an amazing variety of everyday tasks with his toes. It seemed impossible that he could ever become expert at what he most wanted to do-paint. But when Pasche was in his 20s, an Italian artist visiting his home in Geneva patiently taught him to hold a brush between his agile first and second toes, gave him aid in painting techniques...
...relatives. Soon Felix got a job in a furniture factory at $1.25 an hour. Like many of the new immigrants, the couple still so strongly showed the boot marks of Soviet terror that they could not shake off their tenseness or wariness, kept their window blinds drawn, reporters at arm's length. Said a Hungarian friend, who arrived in the U.S. in 1948: "It takes about two years to realize what America is like. Not the things you can buy, but the things you can say. I can say something about President Eisenhower, and nobody will lock...
...first place from nowhere. Unknown two years ago when Columbia began building her up to replace Rita Hayworth, she has made only six pictures, shot to the top in the last three-as the beautiful sister in Picnic, the slum-spawned girl friend of The Man with the Golden Arm and the socialite wife in The Eddy Duchin Story. Her next part: the title role in Jeanne Eagels...