Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge police last night towed away two out-of-state College students' cars to launch a new "clean-up" campaign on streets in the Harvard Square area. The cars, which were illegally parked on the sidewalk near the intersection of Mount Auburn and Boylston Streets, can be reclaimed anytime at the Ellery Garage at 418 Broadway, Cambridge...
...their final defense line behind the Rhine, the defenders regrouped according to plan. Joined by units of the French and British armies, they prepared to launch a counterattack. Observed by SHAPE Commander Eisenhower, fresh from NATO's impressive "Operation Counterthrust" (TIME, Oct. 1) on the northwest German plain, the invaders will be repulsed, as they always are when the script calls...
Konvalinka himself helped the West's new private and enterprising propaganda agency, Winds of Freedom,* launch its balloons at the German town of Selb, where the train, with 108 people aboard, had ended its escapade. The leaflets carried pictures of Konvalinka, the train, and a group of 18 of the 31 Czechs who did not go back to Czechoslovakia. They also carried a message from Konvalinka scotching the Reds' late, lame explanation that the train had been "kidnaped by U.S agents." Wrote Konvalinka: "My countrymen, I beg you not to believe Americans were involved. It is just...
...Korea, said Dewey to the Manhattan convention of the American Bar Association, "the United States issued an engraved invitation to Stalin to launch his conquest . . . Normally, Stalin does not need more than one engraved invitation . . ." The new mutual-defense treaties with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are welcome, but do not go far enough: "We are going about this business by bits and pieces and getting ourselves as a nation into a dangerous position . . . What about the Philippines? The island of Formosa is essential to the defense of the Philippines [yet] our national Government has been on-again...
When young Publisher George Hecht was ready to launch Children, the Magazine for Parents in 1926 (the title was shaved to the Parents' Magazine three years later), he offered her the editorship. She soon found out that "editing" meant rewriting into readable form the pedantic prose of the medical and child-guidance experts who were and still are Parents' important contributors. She crusaded for better pay for teachers, school lunches, better health examinations for children, more thorough care and training for mothers...