Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Engineers and the state of North Dakota, already stands 200 feet high and 2½ miles long; its 70 million cubic yards of earth and stone exceed by 20 times the bulk of Egypt's Great Pyramid. It is scheduled for completion next year...
...less than 60 books have appeared over Graves's signature, but the bulk of them have been scholarlike works, such as The Nazarene Gospel Restored (TIME July 26) and The White Goddess, or novels written purely as potboilers. Some of the novels, e.g., I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Sergeant Lamb's America, are far better than most good-novelists' novels, but they matter little to Author Graves. What does matter is his poems, which year by year have so grown in number that now, in the latest volume, Collected Poems 1955 (Doubleday; $4.50) the hand-weeded best...
With the auxiliary discounted as a backstop, Canada's first-line air defenses are thin. The bulk of R.C.A.F. fighter strength (300 aircraft) is assigned to NATO in Europe; only nine understrength interceptor squadrons (140 jets) are stationed in Canada. As a stopgap measure, the R.C.A.F. plans to bring home squadrons up to full strength (216 aircraft) by year's end. Canadian and U.S. defenses are well coordinated, and in a crisis Canada's planners presumably would look for help from the south. Yet the hard fact is that if A-bombs start to fall...
Despite the medics' enthusiasm, Ike himself has some complaints. Before meals he gulps a spoonful of mild bulk producer to fill up his stomach and cut down on his appetite. Always a heavy eater, he still loves good plain food, has a few exotic tastes, e.g., chili con carne and Chinese dishes. Occasionally, when he indulges these tastes in a hurry and under pressure, he ends up with an upset stomach. At the G.O.P. Convention in Chicago in 1952, he bolted a big Chinese meal, and sent the jitters through his closest supporters when...
Slimmed down from his normal bulk to a trim 175, Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Archie Moore was a good big man, able but ancient (38). Up from 160 Ibs., to an overblown 170, Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper...