Word: flappings
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...Tempest with a four-speed gearbox and wire wheels. Ford introduced its new Futura (TIME, March 24) and Comet S-22. Chrysler showed off its experimental Turboflite; it has a rakish body by Ghia, a gas turbine engine only half as heavy as a regular V8, and an aft flap that acts as an air brake...
...finished a respectable second to Hungary's lean Istvan Rozsavolgyi, 31, but turned the distance in 4:09.4 to set an indoor mark for schoolboys. "Phenomenal is not the right word for Kidd," says Manhattan College's Coach George Eastment. "He's better than that." Relaxing Flap. Kidd has such natural talent that he can scorn the accepted theories of track. He runs so far forward on his feet that he seems to be tottering along on tiptoe. Instead of pumping his arms gracefully to help his balance and stride, Kidd often lets his hands trail...
...that the Program would change the Freshman year should most likely have had his head examined. But it went this way: the Program raised money for three new Houses. By 1960, one and a half were built or building, but the next one was temporarily stalled by a flap over whether Harvard could build on the MTA yards. Bundy and the Masters, convinced that $7 million would be better spent on something besides a new House, started diversionary ploys...
...chip businessmen of the National Industrial Conference Board. Right off, he disarmed the skeptics with charm and wit. "It would be premature to seek your support in the next and inaccurate to express thanks having had it in the last one." Then he poked fun at the missile gap flap within his own team by referring to "what Democrats in this Administration used to call Missile...
...flap was not easily silenced-and for good reason. During the campaign Candidate Kennedy had played heavily on the possibility of a dangerous missile gap. "We are facing a gap on which we are gambling with our survival," he said on the Senate floor a year ago. Lyndon Johnson had clucked that "the missile gap cannot be eliminated by the stroke of a pen." Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, the Democrats' chief defense specialist had charged: "A very substantial missile gap does exist and the Eisenhower Administration apparently is going to permit this gap to increase." Ike found...