Word: chick
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Rear Admiral John Hayward, 50, assistant chief of Naval Operations for Research and Development, will be promoted to vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night...
Lieberson often personally supervises the making of records, listens to every Columbia release. Elegantly dressed, usually in a grey suit and a custom-made tie, he gets equally enthusiastic over such diverse works as The Chick, a raucous new recording that spoofs rock 'n' roll and pop records, and Ages of Man, Sir John Gielgud's new readings from Shakespeare. Listening to Johnny Desmond's recording of Bye Bye Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade...
...them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns that the relative humidity is too low. shoots in a fine spray of water. Durr staggers the eggs, in each incubator, because from the 16th day until the 21st, when the chick breaks through the shell, a hatching chicken gives off heat, thereby thriftily helps incubate the eggs put in later. This way Durr has to turn on the electricity only about 75% of the time...
...dive, the Crimson has the talent to win, but not ideal conditions. The strange board and one meter distance may somewhat hamper Chick Montgomery and Ric Johnson. Despite the unfamiliar pool and the lack of two key men, Crimson depth should prove enough to overcome the Lions...
Frogkicking Bill Schellstede had little trouble in winning the butterfly and Eric Johnson upset teammate Chick Montgomery in the dive, the latter finishing third. Bob Komenda turned in a good performance winning the 440-yard freestyle over Bob Friedlander in 5:08. Although Brown's best swimmers won the final relay, the winning points did not figure in the outcome...