Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vertical take-off jet plane has been under development for eighteen months at the Buffalo plant of Bell Aircraft Corp., and last week word leaked out that it has been successfully test-flown. Bell has worked out a mechanism that tilts the plane's two jet engines from the horizontal to the vertical, thereby making it possible to take off and rise straight up, then level the engines again for forward flight. To land, the pilot slows the plane, tilts the engines vertically and eases to the ground. Since tail and rudder are useless while the plane is hovering...
...simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands in the loam outside the entry and since, as a matter of plain truth, you spent the entire summer rowing stroke for the Buffalo Yacht Club eight, your story will be unhesitatingly accepted. The assembled company will blush for shame for having so heartlessly tantalized you. If some of them happen to owe you money, so much the better...
...achieves a high degree of success. He was born 45 years ago this week into a well-to-do Philadelphia home. At Harvard he majored in chemistry, then switched to law. Later he became a law clerk to Justice Brandeis, practiced in Boston, taught law at the University of Buffalo. He did not become a full-fledged social scientist until 1946, when he joined the Chicago faculty. He wrote The Lonely Crowd during two years at Yale...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some colorful, intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the old Wild West was really wild (TIME...
...Vanishing Prairie. Walt Disney's cameramen catch some intimate glimpses (including the birth of a baby buffalo) of what animal life was like when the West was really wild (TiME...