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...commandant and the commander of the Parris Island barracks should be booted from the Corps because the responsibility is squarely on their shoulders for allowing Mc-Keon to be a group leader of men. McKeon, who is obviously a misfit, is to be pitied CHARLES M. WATSON Brookhaven, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Guiding spirit of the top-level, nine-man citizens' committee that put together the report was New Mexico Publisher (the Santa Fe New Mexican) Robert M. Mc-Kinney, 45, who was tapped for the job because of his longtime friendship with Senator Clinton Anderson, Joint Committee chairman. A corporation director (Rock Island Railroad, International Telephone & Telegraph) and cattle breeder (Aberdeen Angus) but no scientist, Bob McKinney set his task forces to work ten months ago, organized 15 discussion groups of specialists, launched 50 special studies, interviewed 327 top experts in science, industry, agriculture, medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: The Nuclear Revolution | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

American Spelling Book fed him huge doses of phonics, and with their high-toned tales about the perils of sin, Mc-Guffey's Readers did the same. But by the middle of the last century, the educators had already begun to revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE FIRST R | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept a steady hand on the nation's economic throttles. The trick was to keep credit easy enough to have a full head of steam, so that the economy would clip along full speed, yet not blow up into an inflationary boom and bust. As credit soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Once, playing first base, he shoved his big right paw into his hip pocket for a plug of chewing tobacco. Sam McMackin, the Paterson pitcher, went into his windup. Honus shouted for time; he waved his gloved hand and jumped wildly to attract Mc-Mackin's attention. McMackin pitched anyway. The batter grounded to short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball's Best | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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