Word: downs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first...
Oregon-born (Klamath Falls) Harvard-man ('41) Charlie Porter, a World War II Air Corps ground officer, settled down quietly on the lowly House Post Office and Civil Service Committee after his election in 1956. But like others of the species, he soon discovered that international affairs could bring...
After ham and eggs one night last week, Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger, 31, drove up to a 2 a.m. rendezvous in the clear, cold New Mexico desert and methodically climbed into one of the strangest costumes ever worn by man. First he put on two suits of insulated, porous...
The weather was a big factor. Snow and icy roads in much of the north tended to discourage motoring and to hold down speed.
Actually, the long menu was soon curtailed, since serving six radar-cooked foods quickly proved unfeasible. "We narrowed it down to the three most popular choices," Pittenger says. "We offered hot pastrami, ham and cheese,...I don't know what the other one was. All I ate was hot pastrami...