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...benefit of diplomatic ties. Last fall General Mark Clark audaciously invited Rhee to call on him in Tokyo, and last week, 77-year-old Syngman Rhee flew to Tokyo with his forceful, Austrian-born wife, who is 20 years his junior. He was, he said, "willing to meet Japan halfway...
...rocket to 39.8 miles and boosting its speed to 14,364 m.p.h. Then it too will drop off, leaving the final, manned section to blast itself upward alone, attaining the speed of 18,468 m.p.h. When it reaches the desired altitude (1,075 miles), it will have spiraled halfway around the earth and will have been slowed by gravitation to 14,770 m.p.h. This is not quite fast enough to keep it in its orbit. If left to itself, it would follow an elliptical course down to the atmosphere...
...carrying Richmond by more than 2 to 1, carrying Roanoke and Lynchburg by 2 to 1, edging ahead even in rural Cumberland and Powhatan Counties. For the first time since 1928. Virginia was swinging Republican, 111,000 to 88,000. In Maryland, the story was the same: at the halfway mark Ike led with a 55% majority, including a lead in the Democratic stronghold of Baltimore...
Between the mountain and the plain there is a brisk two-way traffic in theologians. Many of them make their camp at some convenient halfway point (although in these trying times a mountain residence is considered more comfortable) -and there are some commuters. But few have dared attempt to bring the mountain and the plain together in a single theological system. Of these, the man who has made the most systematic effort-and, along with Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the most brilliant-is a 66-year-old professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Paul Tillich. In The Theology...
Dave Alpers and Don French, who were expected to finish in the first five, both suffered injuries. Alpers was up with the leaders at the halfway mark, but dropped out when his ankle went out under him. French was sidelined with severe cramps in his legs...