Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President George Washington wasted eight days coaching over nearly impassable roads from his home in Mount Vernon to the capital at Philadelphia, but 33rd President Eisenhower hardly changed his office routine, indeed barely got time to lean back and peel an orange, as he went about the Eastern Seaboard on air-age conveyances. Only a few days after he okayed purchase of three Boeing jet 707s for future Administration use on long trips, he pushed the sophisticated reciprocating engine up another notch in utility to Presidents. The helicopter, he proved last week, can be more than his traffic-jumping airport...
...conscientiously teach all basic subjects, even offer "enrichment" work for bright children. But, like most grade schools, they see no obligation to teach foreign languages or give children a fast, Space-Age start in science. Last winter a group of parents with bright children tested this mixture, found it lean for the pupils with high...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness)-a magnificent war story (TIME...
...Chicago-born Actor Bellamy, a veteran of 36 years on stage, screen and television, still has problems to face. Among the leftover projects from his first terms: congressional approval of a tax spread for actors so that fat onetime earnings can be extended to cover lean years; federation with allied theatrical unions...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness) -a magnificent story of war (TIME...