Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clutching a two-page spread of photographs, cut carefully from the Saturday Evening Post, a red-faced woman in a fading gray coat pushing close to the barrier. She held up the double sheet. "Pat and Dick," she said. "I'm going to get it autographed." The wind caught the papers, "Dick Nixon: I Say He's a Wonderful Guy, by Pat Nixon," they said. "Somebody told me that he doesn't give autographs but I don't believe it. He'll give me one. I'm the only Republian in South Boston, almost. That's because I wasn...
...some "KEEP PUNCHING TO KEEP OUT ISMS," each with a bold "Donated" printed prominently beneath its message. There were about fifteen of the signs; the boys had picked them up in front of the Barber Shop and then walked over to stand in two orderly rows flanking the police barrier. There was a little boy leaning on the barrier. He turned to one of the boys with the signs. "How much they givin' ya?" "Dunno. They ain't payin' us 'til after." The little boy looked over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little...
...students were seriously injured at 9:05 p.m. last night when their car crashed over a barrier and down a ten foot embankment on route 128 in Beverly...
...reserve of popularity among reporters, he quickly got gun-shy of the press. Startled at how a chance remark to newsmen can turn into a headline, he has shied away from reporters, sees his press troupe mostly from speaking platforms. He has been working hard to overcome the barrier, but Hearst Reporter Bob Considine put his finger on one difficulty last week. In Europe, wrote Considine, Ike became accustomed to gloved-hand treatment by the press and "the very thought of an unfavorable story about his command was automatically ruled out of the average correspondent's mind." Now that...
Airman Echols says that his main job is to try to guess what the Joint Chiefs of Staff will be wanting five years hence. Northrop's job is to make them want what he designs. Right now, Northrop is worrying about the "thermal barrier"- the speeds where air friction will disintegrate metal planes. He is experimenting with fuselages made of glass fiber, which will not melt at those speeds. Looking further ahead to the days of pilotless planes, Northrop already has about 14% of his work force on guided missiles, expects a production contract soon. Against rainy days, Northrop...