Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to thank you very much for giving my father a title [TIME, March 16]. I'm sure he deserves it, and I can't think how the Queen came to be so careless as to overlook this fact...
...VELMA M. BOAZ...
...Force's Ballistic Missile Division, will get a third star and be named chief of the Air Research and Development Command, B.M.D.'s parent group. German-born Ben Schriever (TIME, cover. April 1, 1957) grew up in Texas, took an engineering degree at Texas A. & M., got his wings in 1933. He worked as a test pilot, studied at Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School, took time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, was a B-17 pilot in the Pacific in World War II. Always immersed...
Pretty Political? After a general gasp came a lively babble. Said Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks: "Swell idea. It's a knockout." Chimed Agriculture's Ezra Taft Benson: "I'm no politician. But I think it's a great idea." Finally the President got a word in. "By golly, I like that idea. But it's pretty political, isn't it, Meade?" Replied Alcorn: "And how! Mr. President. But it's good politics, and will be good for the country...
...years ago as a full professor. The new rare-book librarian had never taught a course in his life, had no Ph.D. (his only academic degree was an A.B. from Lehigh), and had proclaimed: "I don't know a thing about the Dewey decimal system, and I'm not going to learn. I've got a staff to do that." What is worse-although Randall is still confident that no one suspects-is that the key he wore and still wears was not issued by Phi Beta Kappa, but by Kappa Beta Phi, a whimsical outfit that...