Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip last year, Leonard packed his grip and headed, among other places, for the rocket proving grounds at White Sands, N. Mex. for talks with a very special kind of scientist. You may remember the result: a cover story on space travel (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952), with Artist Artzybasheff's striking cover painting of a lunar robot (see above). Reaction to the space story came jet-fast to Leonard: five publishers asked if he would expand the story into book length. This week the book was published: Flight into Space (307 pp.), Random House ($3.50). It is Leonard...
...world heading towards more, not less free enterprise. Foreign investors are encouraged. There have been other reversals of Ataturk policy. Many emancipated Turks now fear "the black danger," the resurgence of the once powerful mullahs. Religion is strong today in Turkey. The country is 98% Moslem. Ataturk relaxed the grip of a reactionary and decadent church, but he could not destroy the faith of his people. Just as Ataturk had taken the best from them, discarded the rest, the Turks are showing a talent for preserving what they think best in his teaching...
...packing Multimillionaire Jorge Pas-quel of Mexican-baseball-league fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico's sugar industry. Pledged to lower food prices, the President also smashed the monopolistic plays of middlemen in corn, rice and beans by authorizing a government agency to buy and sell such commodities on an emergency basis. With food prices down 10%, Ruiz...
...among amateurs, little (5 ft. 7 in., 145 lbs.) Ken fought a war of maneuver from the baseline. But Trabert's cannonading returns took a steady toll. Rosewall, too, went down in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. For the moment, at least, Australia's grip on the U.S. singles crown was unclenched...
Next day Tony Trabert outhit Vic Seixas to take a personal grip on the title...