Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, Gene decided that he had to fly again. Eighteen months ago he went to work for Northrop as a test pilot. He was a good...
Originality is seldom wasted in poking fun at competitive athletics, but going on the assumption that the only good joke is an old one, the Lampoon's Harvard-Yale Game issue kicks the Old Grad and the pigskin squarely and sometimes humorously. Eighteen photographs supplement the parody on sport sidelights and interviews with Grand Old Men of Football. Perhaps Lampy's switch to photography is a last gasp effort to beat the cartoon nemesis--it may not succeed...
Part of the campaign to entice alumni to the games is waged with a colorful advertising brochure, which informs readers that "there are eighteen miles of comfortable seats in the Yale Bowl, the only large stadium in American which has back rests on every seat...
When the Secretary of Agriculture reorganizes his department, inauspicious bureaus like the Soil Conservation Service are supposed to adjust with stoic indifference. But in eighteen years of advising farmers how to make their lands more valuable, the Soil Service has developed a strong esprit de corps. Working with other federal bureaus, the Service has saved so many millions of acres that its attitude on erosion control has become almost fanatical. Thus its protest was understandably loud when Secretary Benson announced his new plan which will strip the Soil Service of most of its functions, and delegate conservation control...
...Health, Education and Welfare. Miss Hoey's Bureau administers financial assistance to the blind, the needy aged, the totally and permanent disabled and to dependent children. The Secretary of her department, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, said Miss Hoey was fired not for incompetence (she had been in charge for eighteen years) but because the job was "a policy making position." It therefore has to be taken off civil service and given to a political appointee...