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...Lockheed recruited Air Force ist Lieut. Francis Powers. Powers was a plane-happy youngster born in the Cumberland mountain country in Kentucky, near the Virginia border. His father, Oliver Powers, 55, who owns a shoe-repair shop in Norton, Va., reveled in telling callers last week that Francis got his first plane ride at the age of 14, came back to announce: "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Flight to Sverdlovsk | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

HENRY E. CHAPUT JR. Cumberland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Hall-Jay Street stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a six-story, yellow brick building; she lives in Apartment 18 on the fifth floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Major Poet, Minor Verse | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Rhode Island, a statewide self-criticism meeting yielded money from the legislature for special programs: calculus in Cumberland High School, Russian in Cranston High School, the M.I.T. physics course in East Providence High School. ¶ English composition, a top Conant priority, is getting overdue attention. Main problem: the teacher shortage. To produce one student theme a week. Conant suggested that no English teacher should handle more than 100 students. But correcting 100 themes at ten minutes each takes 17 hours of work-2½ hours seven nights a week. Chicago would need 330 more teachers, adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Inspector General | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

STUART GOLDFINE Cumberland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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