Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have just been reading the July 27 issue of TIME and particularly the article entitled "The Moment of Truth." Of course I am always pleased when my name appears in TIME, so this is not a complaint. TIME is entitled to its view about Hubert Humphrey even when that view is very irritating to Humphrey. But you have taken the liberty to quote me wholly out of context. Your article says: "Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. 'It's the most dangerous thing in the world,' he says...
...Despite Sputnik, the Soviet drive to scientific advancement is not as far advanced as many Americans believe-even the impressive new scientific center at Novosibirsk represents primarily a plan to uproot scientists in other cities and put them to work under government domination in Siberia; in its atomic power programs, the U.S.S.R. still uses old devices that the U.S. abandoned years...
...before muscular, 39-year-old Bill Rankin, combat pilot and a bar-bellhefting, physical-culture fan, would touch earth again, he was in for 40 minutes that even other old salts of the air would be talking about for years...
...where he is recovering from frostbite and shock, Pilot Rankin forecast, "I'll be back in the air in a month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep his hand...
...once had firm opinions about federal price-support programs, are now as baffled by the massive, $7 billion-a-year farm-glut scandal as the experts, the Eisenhower Administration and Congress (TIME, March 2). "Not a single farmer," Lubell reported last week for United Feature Syndicate, "could offer even a crackpot solution to the surplus problem." And a "sizable majority of farmers confessed they thought there might be no solution...