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...enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice, hardworking "Pat" Partridge finds himself little more than chef for a batch of alphabet soup, including 1) USAF-ADC, the Air Force's Air Defense Command, 2) USARADCOM, the Army's Air Defense Command, 3) NAVFOR, meaning Naval Forces of the North American Air Defense Command, and 4) RCAF-ADC, the Royal Canadian Air Force home defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: NORAD's Classic Example | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...smoked salmon, oysters, caviar, lobster, game, asparagus, pate de foie gras," as well as "overgenerous or lavish helpings which affect the money value of the unit." Carriers that have been serving just such lavish sandwiches consoled themselves by reflecting that the ruling, after all, did not affect the chef's imagination. Said a spokesman for one: "We'll serve what we've been serving even if we have to roll up the ham so that a piece of bread will show as required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: So Much for the Sandwich | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...morning is spent in sleep and in breakfasting luxuriously in one's room, after which the real business of the day begins. This is either rowing on the river, or a long excursion into the country with a tandem, returning in time for dinner, which, dressed by a French chef, and washed down with the choicest wines, is eaten at the rooms of some hospitable friend. After an evening spent playing billiards or in other diversions the undergraduate goes to bed when the small hours are beginning to grow large...

Author: By Henry Wheeler, | Title: A True University | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Matisse asserts his own lyric manner in top form. As large a chef d'oevre as the Piano Lesson shares in common with the brilliant little Seated Odalisque an extraordinary clarity and extreme purity of expression...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Modern Masters | 10/16/1957 | See Source »

Your menu sounds tempting, but hasn't Chef Bunshaft just sliced off another savory hunk of the endless Skidmore, Owings & Merrill bologna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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