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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physical, sat through four hours of indoctrination, spent an hour in the altitude chamber breathing oxygen under pressure, finally tried out an ejection seat (it hurled him 15 ft. into the air). After that he put on a flying suit, g suit and the rest of the gear to find out How to Go Weightless. See MEDICINE...
...battle the very most that can be offered in defense of those ideals and those principles on which America stands," he said huskily, knowing what it means to win the Medal of Honor. "Anyone who has been through the adventure of war with men such as you could find in his heart today many things that he would like to say over and above anything I have so feebly tried to express. I think the best thing I can do, on behalf of the United States, on behalf of the people and of myself personally and officially...
...Senator Clinton Anderson (TIME, May 19) is scheduled to resume the powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss believes their feud would be detrimental to the AEC program. The President wants Strauss to stay on; Strauss has countered by trying to find a successor who is reasonably free of Washington entanglements, reasonably tough enough to stand the heat...
Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, said that the department is looking for a guest lecturer for the spring, but felt that it will probably not be able to find one. He expected that someone would be found to teach Latin American history...
...possibility considered by planemakers: subsidiaries that would sell, lease and re-equip the planes. Some foreign lines that have ordered jets as a matter of prestige may find themselves too short of dollars, may have to settle for DC-7s and Constellations...