Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your photograph of Senator Kennedy surrounded by Oregon's "Cavemen" [March 16] brought back memories of a similar photograph of the Cavemen which appeared during the 1948 presidential campaign. The honored guest at that time was Thomas E. Dewey. PFC WILLIAM R. BUNGE
...opera suffer as they give birth to their roles? The riding, shooting, even walking lessons they must take; the continual risk of shooting off a sideburn? But the western story is not merely a tale that is told by television, full of sound and fury, signifying little. It traces back to a fantastically colorful period of U.S. history, the era when there was "no law west of Kansas City, and west of Fort Scott no God." For an account of the past and the present of a great folk legend, see the SHOW BUSINESS cover story, The Six-Gun Galahad...
...broad-beamed U.S. Navy missile-test ship Norton Sound pulled away from her dock at Port Hueneme, Calif, shortly after dusk one day last August, a dockhand bellowed to Captain Arthur Gralla, the skipper: "What time tomorrow ya coming back, captain?" Yelled Gralla in reply: "I'll let you know." To all appearances, Norton Sound was off on another of her one-day, routine, rocket-testing trips to the Navy's offshore test range. But Gralla knew, even before opening the sealed orders in his cabin, that Norton Sound would not be docking at Port Hueneme (pronounced...
...iceberg-menaced waters around Cape Horn, Captain Gralla reached the South Atlantic rendezvous three days ahead of schedule. Picking up first the Falkland Islands and then Tarawa on radar, he radioed a signal: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Replied Admiral Mustin from the carrier: "Greetings from 3,000 shellbacks." Back came Gralla: "Six hundred and fifty horned shellbacks are ready to shoot...
There will also be a "proportional increase in financial aid to keep pace with the rise in tuition," according to Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, and Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School. At least one half of any increased income will probably be plowed back into financial...