Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck, carrying the X-13 to a vertical position. It was now hanging by an undernose hook from a short length of cable strung between two movable arms at the top of the vertical trailer bed. Its engine roared louder, and slowly the Vertijet rose, standing on an invisible column of hot racing gases. Its hook now free from the cable, it rose higher. Then it curved gracefully into normal, horizontal flying position and roared away out of sight...
When the X-13 returned from a brief horizontal joy ride, it slowed down and tilted its nose upward. Then it backed down toward earth, standing on its column of gas, and walked steadily toward the platform. A man was waiting at the top of the platform to help Pilot Girard during the critical operation of engaging the hook. He watched the X-13 approach until its hook was above the cable. Then he pressed a control that raised the supporting arms, slipping the cable under the hook. That was the end of the flight. The platform was cranked down...
...editorial might well have run in the Chicago Tribune. In fact, it appeared in John Shively Knight's Chicago Daily News and the four other metropolitan newspapers of the Knight chain.* Written by Publisher Knight, whose weekly, three-column "Editor's Notebook" sets policy for all Knight papers, the editorial was the latest in a series of pronouncements through which the powerful chain in less than five months has abjured its longtime support for Eisenhower and marched toward total estrangement from Modern Republicanism...
Along with horror stories on boondoggle items such as "the $300,000 that the Army spends to finance Sunday morning recreation for civilian members of private rifle clubs," the Knight papers have run two-column pep talks urging readers to protest to their Congressmen, helped them out with maps of congressional districts and names of Representatives...
MURDERED! screamed the headline in a two-column, black-bordered box on Page One of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader (circ. 46,517). The victim, said the editorial by Publisher William Loeb, was Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. His assassins, said the publisher, were 1) the Communists, who wore down McCarthy's "adrenal and other glands": 2) Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders, "who practically accused McCarthy of being a homosexual on the floor of the Senate"; 3) "piously hypocritical newspapers." In bold-face capitals Loeb added: "Finally, we come to that stinking hypocrite in the White...