Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President George Bunker of the Martin Co. (the Titan ICBM) complained that the Pentagon has "so many people who have the power of negative endorsement" but nobody to give "an absolutely clear-cut decision that you know will stand." Titan is still on a "one-shift basis" and has not received a dollar of speedup money. Curtiss-Wright's President Roy Hurley aimed at the Pentagon budgeteers who withhold money for a program that has been approved by the Joint Chiefs and authorized by Congress: "You should shoot them, or drown them or put 'em in jail." Summed...
With all his political assets, Mike Pearson still had to make a fight for it. His chief adversary: Paul Martin, 54, former Minister of Health and Welfare and a principal architect of Canada's extensive social security system. But in the end Pearson's international reputation, easily transferred into prestige at home, carried him to a comfortable first-ballot victory. He takes over the party controls this week from Louis St. Laurent, 75, Prime Minister for nine years until last summer's election, who retired to make way for a younger...
Svensk; Rank). On the subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...
Reider maintained this margin, but Yale's Ed Slowik passed the Crimson's Art Cahn just before the pass to the anchor-men. Slowik's brother John, who previously had finished second in the Farrell 500, fought off several challenges by Ed Martin of the Crimson, and finally pulled away at the gun-lap to win by some ten yards...
...varsity's overall time of eight minutes, and five-tenths of one second was quite good for so early in the season. Particularly notable was the fact that Thompson and Martin both ran their legs in something under two minutes...