Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government started to buy textbooks, provide transportation and maintain health services, then the trend would be to throw more and more parochial-school expenses on the Government. Thus it would provide a way for state-supported religious institutions, hence a fusion of church and state. MAX G. PHILLIPS Berrien Springs, Mich...
...knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just...
...higher than such lonesome greats of the olden days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
...Center: Max Baughan, 21, Georgia Tech; 6 ft. 1 in., 212 lbs. Major: industrial management. "Seems to make more tackles than most teams do. Can make it on offense or defense." The pros also like Center Carl Kammerer of the College of the Pacific, a husky linebacker (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) who did not play a minute this year because of a broken leg, but showed them more than enough a year...
Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...