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...took heed, and Auntie began to use lipstick and to take cha cha lessons...
Over the California mountains, Lock heed test pilots had purposely flown test Electras into turbulent air at high speeds. Apparently because the planes' struts had not been weakened, nothing happened. But when company engineers, in wind-tunnel tests, purposely weakened nacelle struts to about the same condition as those on the crashed Electras, the fatal chain reaction began. The company had its answer. During all of this testing time, the Federal Aviation Agency had allowed airlines to fly Electras so long as their speed was held to a conservative 329 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet, thus removing...
...pair of tart messages, President Eisenhower prodded Congress to pass intact his $4.2 billion foreign-aid request (a House-Senate conference committee authorized a $4.1 billion ceiling; still ahead was the appropriation wrangle), to heed a string of top-priority problems ranging from the Treasury interest ceiling to the appalling farm mess. "We still have a great deal to get done for America," said he. But Democratic congressional leaders, forewarned fortnight ago of Ike's determination to veto big-spending bills, went right ahead setting up fat targets...
...this reason, there is a large group of successful investors who pay little heed to charts, or what the market as a whole will do. These are the fundamentalists, the security analysts who spend their time studying the profits, prospects and management of individual companies rather than trying to fathom the market's movements. Nobody, they caution, "should buy the market," even when it is going up. Says Belmont Towbin, partner of the highly successful Wall Street underwriting firm of C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co. (TIME, April 13, 1959): "The general movement of the stock market is the result...
...junketeering newsmen and Air Force brass, Lanphier in one evening 1) gave a hard sell for the Atlas, whose capabilities even the President has highly praised: 2) pushed an obvious soft pedal for the Martin Co.'s competing Titan; 3) upbraided the press for not paying more heed to the U.S. defense crisis; and 4) attacked the President for gambling with the nation's survival...