Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uses a simple new method of propulsion: the ducted air fan. Two enclosed counterrotating propellers under the platform (to keep the platform from spinning) suck air down through holes in the circular fuselage, providing downward thrust, thus lifting the plane. All the pilot has to do in steering is lean in the desired direction. Still very much an experiment, the light, easy-to-operate Flying Carpet may serve the armed forces as a courier aircraft, scout and air ambulance...
...Issued new visitors' cards setting forth the rules for House gallery behavior, e.g., men must take their hats off, note-taking is not permitted (except in the press section), and visitors should not lean over the railings...
Construction on the Pan American Highway to Panama, which has been sputtering along on a lean budget, got a high-octane boost last week. On the recommendation of Vice President Nixon, who toured Central America in February, President Eisenhower asked Congress to accelerate the U.S. contribution for completing the 3,200-mile Laredo-to-Panama road. Earlier, the President had budgeted $5,750,000 for the highway for the next fiscal year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought...
Encouraging as they are, Diem's accomplishments are minor compared to what remains to be done in attaining law and order and building public confidence. Stubborn and negative-minded, Diem disquiets some of his countrymen by his continued withdrawal, and by his tendency to lean for advice more on three of his brothers, Bishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, Ngo Dinh Luyen and Ngo Dinh Nhu, than on his Cabinet. His reluctance to delegate authority has led him to fantastic time-consuming pettiness. Samples: recently he took over himself the granting of all entry and exit visas and the scrutiny...
...footer, Taylor was wounded once and jumped twice into battle with his 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the Eighth Army's last combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...