Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another year, in different political circumstances, the speech might have been hailed for its firm stand on principle. But in Year 1959 it was met with coolness by the Democratic 86th, as, for example, when Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, with the television eye on him. smothered a yawn at the very moment that President Eisenhower promised to present a balanced budget...
...programs are split between two bureaucratic domains: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency and the civilian-bossed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see chart). On paper the division is clear and logical: ARPA, headed by sometime General Electric Executive Roy Johnson, oversees military projects (the Discoverer eye-in-the-sky program, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust multi-chamber rocket engine); NASA, under Engineer T. Keith Glennan, oversees civilian projects (Project Mercury, a 1,000,000-lb.-thrust single-chamber engine). But the division is arbitrary, a response to prejudices and rivalries rather than to the realities...
...eye for women ever since his teens, when his doting mother began giving him beautiful girls as birthday presents. As a devout Moslem, he had four legal wives as well as 42 zenana companions, who have all the benefits and privileges of marriage except legality. With the help of legal wives, begums, concubines and birthday presents, the Nizam has sired more than 50 children...
...Celebrated on New Year's Eve the seventh birthday of his granddaughter Susan, second girl of son and current junior presidential aide Major John. Ike's highlight: helping apple-of-eye grandson David, 10, pick out a $2 cloisonne necklace, a $1 box of stationery, a $1 spelling game for sister Susan. "Well," muttered Ike after peeling the bills out of his pocket, "we did the best we could...
...knighted in 1949), Barbirolli recalled last week that he had started his career as a cellist at the age of eleven: "If I can live for the next two years, I will have been before the public as a musician for 50 years. Every man in the public eye must have his ups and downs. They can't let the downs stop them...