Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
...plush Panama City cocktail lounge the chitchat hushed as a scrawny 21-year-old singer stepped up, caught the beat from a guitar and chanted mournfully...
...fifty, Dyer faces even toughter competition, for both Bob Keiter of Amherst, who beat him in the Easterns, and Fred Westphal of Wisconsin have equalled his best time of 22.2. Dave Armstrong of Yale (22.4), Bill Roth of North Carolina (22.5), and Rex Aubrey of Yale, the defending co-champion, are some of a host of strong contenders, eleven of whom have bettered 23 seconds this year...
...squash yesterday, Ed Vaughan defeated Bill Rapp, and Dick Chute beat Ben Neilson. Finals are slated for a date after the vacation...
...lines more or less tell the story of Rogue Yates, a relentlessly robust novel in a little-known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with his wooden leg; a sister was active in a sort of open-air bordello, and Tony himself was sold to a cattle thief at twelve. At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West...