Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that many readers like myself read with understanding pity the pathetic story of the little Korean boy, "A Chance for Ronnie" [TIME, April 5], but my blood boils when I think of the father, a U.S. Army colonel, who could so callously desert his child and its mother . . . This certainly is a cockeyed world when military authorities will pry into the motives of one colonel for confessing to the use of germ warfare by American flyers in Korea and allow another colonel who is guilty of a heinous offense to go free...
...moon, says Dr. Wilkins, has plenty of level plains (misnamed "seas"), but to land on one of them would be like landing in the middle of the Sahara Desert. There would be nothing of interest nearby for the voyagers to explore. The moon's interesting parts are its mountainous areas, and they are mostly so rough that no spaceship could land on them without a disastrous crash. Dr. Wilkins thinks that the best bet would be to land inside one of the moon's great craters. Some of them are rough inside, but others look fairly smooth...
Saadia (M-G-M). "I will not allow any man to look at my body," moans Saadia (Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...
...desert ten miles south of Phoenix, Ariz., International Harvester Co. showed 600 distributors from the U.S. and 20 foreign countries its new line of equipment at work. In the roundup were 70 pieces of heavy machinery, 29 of them completely new. They were the latest evidence that machines for construction work and farms have become so specialized that there is a different one for almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with...
...Cinemaker Walt Disney, already the winner of 18 Oscars, won four more for his documentaries Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, The Living Desert, and the cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom...