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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parents of National Merit Scholarship winners chose Harvard as "the best college in the United States" in a recent poll conducted by John L. Holland, director of research for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rated Leading College | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...supersonic delta-wing B58 Hustler, loping along at 650 m.p.h. 32,000 ft. over Texas, began a sharp turn to the southeast. Suddenly the four-jet bomber strained, trembled. "The first thing I noticed," said Captain Daniel Holland, the defensive-systems operator, "was that we were pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bone Crusher | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Ejection came fast. First out was Holland. Strapped in his seat, he hit the air like a bullet splattering against a steel wall. The blasting air stream broke his right arm, fractured his pelvis, pulled apart the ligaments of his left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bone Crusher | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...richest slice of Africa over which Britain still has a measure of control, the federation, which is larger than Britain, France, Holland and Germany combined, was founded in 1953 by welding the protectorates of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. The Central Africa Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: The White Knight | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Florida: Democrat Spessard Holland, 66, ambled to his third term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Senate | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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