Word: janning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy records for pilots with certain specifications. Among them: a university degree in the physical sciences or engineering, completion of military test-pilot training, a minimum of 1,500 logged hours of flight time, age less than 40, maximum height 5 ft. 11 in., superb physical condition, and physical and psychological attributes suited for space flight. Last week Keith Glennan, boss of the National Aeronautics...
...Viet Nam seems securely under the control of the President and his family: one of his brothers is regarded as the grey eminence behind the President, another is an influential Roman Catholic bishop, a third the governor of central Viet Nam. His pretty sister-in-law, Madame Ngo (TIME, Jan. 26), has little difficulty "persuading" her fellow Deputies in the Assembly to do as she says-no one dares oppose her. Continually threatened by Ho Chi Minh's Communist North Viet Nam, President Diem rules strongly, spends more money on jails than on schools. South Viet Nam must...
...Roman Catholic boys' club in Rotterdam that he helps run, he showed the boys a newspaper clipping. It described how two Negro boys in Monroe, N.C.-David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10-had been sent to reform school for having kissed a white girl (TIME, Jan. 26). Saris' young friends got as indignant...
...Jan. 7 the Hans Hedtoft left Copenhagen on her maiden voyage to the Greenland ports. She arrived uneventfully at Godthaab, capital of Greenland, and one day last week put to sea again bound for Copenhagen on the homeward leg of her maiden run. On board were 40 crewmen, a cargo of frozen fish, and 55 passengers, including one of Greenland's two Representatives in the Danish Parliament, and six children. Rounding Cape Farewell, the southernmost tip of the island, known as the "worst in the north" for storms, the Hans Hedtoft struggled against the Arctic currents, icy polar winds...
Cuba was left to a single fulltime resident U.S. newspaper correspondent-the New York Times's Ruby Hart Phillips (TIME, Jan. 19)-and the Havana bureaus of the A.P. and the U.P.I...