Word: fla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only make my work more necessary—building confidence in the latent abilities of each of my students. Now my students make the very soup bowl (out of clay, glazed and fired) into which they will pour heated frozen soup. And thus the cycle is still completed. HAL RIEGGER Clearwater, Fla...
Bradenton Beach, Fla...
Daughter of Army Colonel Percy W. Thompson (now retired), Barbara lived on Army posts, went to high school in Gainesville, Fla., attended Purdue for a while before her father was transferred to Vienna in 1946. There, in the normal round of Army social events, she met Captain John Eisenhower, U.S. Infantry, who was a company commander. They got married less than a year later in Virginia, at a big wedding attended by 200 guests, including Army Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower...
...very practical person," says her father, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., "but at the same time, she manages to get enjoyment out of everything she does." In India last week, Barbara was doing just that. She went for a bumpy ride on an elephant with her husband ("Johnny kept rocking the box"), shopped for souvenirs for her children, picked up a few saris for herself ("I love them, but someone will have to show me how to wear them"), visited a village and Red Cross headquarters, chatted with India's leading lady political and social workers at a reception...
...flat, twisting course laid out on an old military airfield near Sebring, Fla., the world's best drivers and fastest cars met last week in the first Grand Prix of the United States. The man to beat was a broad-faced Aussie named Jack Brabham, 33. A steady man with a mechanic's instinct for pushing his low-slung Cooper-Climax no harder than metal and rubber can stand, Brabham rose out of the ranks this year (TIME, Aug. 10) to take the lead in the world driving championship...