Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pritchard, 44, a World War II fighter pilot and commander of the 49th Bomber Wing in Korea (Silver Star, D.F.C., Air Medal with twelve oakleaf clusters), was assigned to Iceland only two months ago, and was actually out of the country when the latest blowup happened. Both State and Defense Departments agreed that he had done a good job on his short tour, that his personal competence was not in question, but that the overriding consideration was a happy Iceland, where U.S. troops and the somewhat diffident Icelanders could get along together. Moreover, with the Communists offering a challenge...
...Italians leaked their firm decision to a semi-official news agency, the missile they will get, the Army-designed Jupiter, was again proving its bright new reputation for reliability. In a summery twilight test-firing, Jupiter blasted aloft on its tenth successful flight (out of 15 tries, only one blowup), its third flight since Chrysler Corp. started supplying birds off its regular assembly line...
...Campaign Speech. The blowup came on the fourth day of the visit, when Macmillan's back was turned. Though feverish from a nagging cold, Macmillan dutifully allowed himself to be bundled off to the Soviet bloc's Joint Nuclear Research Center at Dubna, 95 miles south of Moscow. With Macmillan safely out of the way, Candidate Khrushchev-running unopposed for the Supreme Soviet of the Federated Russian Republic in this week's "elections"-delivered a campaign speech that shook the Western world (see above...
...huge Madonna, the centerpiece of Dali's new exhibition at Manhattan's Carstairs Gallery, improbably combines a memory of Raphael with a near photographic blowup of an ear. The dots of the photographic screen are like both atomic particles and little voids riddling the picture; they ripple and fade like a cloud of unknowing before the Renaissance image. A piece of paper floating on edge and a cherry hung on a string, painted to fool the eye, emphasize the strangeness of the rest. Dali's title for this weird and serious effort: Quasi-grey picture which, closely...
Battle for Funds. Stocky, handsome Tex Thornton, who was born in Knox County, Texas and graduated from Texas Technological College ('37), got a backhanded boost toward success from eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes. Thornton quit Hughes Aircraft in the same big blowup of Hughesmen (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953) that sent Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge off to start their own famed Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. With Thornton went Roy L. Ash, Hughes Aircraft's assistant controller and now Litton...