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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety of spare parts, including a complete, ready-to-install jet engine. The two cargo planes are assigned a leapfrogging schedule that will keep one of them always one stop ahead of the President. Eight specially trained Air Force police will guard all the planes on the ground. To keep watch as Ike flies over the sea is a string of preassigned Navy vessels patrolling the Atlantic at 500-mile intervals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING WHITE HOUSE: Flying White House | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Although the construction is expected to cost about $400,000 altogether, no final estimate has been made and no ground-breaking date set, according to Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence. Rogers House will be torn down either this summer or next, however, and construction will take nearly a full academic year, so that the three units should be ready for occupancy in the fall of either...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Single Gift Will Finance 'Cliffe Co-op Dormitories | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

...Brown has a sprinter's speed, strength enough to carry along a brace of tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom of the Western Conference, can offer Halfback Ollie Matson, 29, whose stride is rated the most beautiful in football, a smooth flow of power that whisks him through the frantic flurry of broken-field blocks and tackles with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...duck and fired. At that instant. Anderson stood up, inexplicably lurched toward Curtice, and caught the full blast in his head.* "That's one of the things I can't understand," a haggard Harlow Curtice told a press conference the next day. "He may have stumbled. The ground was very uneven. I don't know why he didn't stay down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Hunters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...prodigious feat of analysis, narrative and condensation, Bertrand Russell has compressed the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages. (In a 1946 volume, he took nearly three times as much space.) As ground bait in the chilling stream of philosophic speculation, the publishers have sprinkled 500 illustrations, half of them in color, through this volume. From Thales (circa 624-546 B.C.), about whom little is known, to Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrangler's World | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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