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Skis & Soles. For Shepard, the challenging curriculum seemed a natural outgrowth of the life that he likes to lead. Born in East Derry, N.H. (pop. 200), in 1923, he is the son of a retired Army colonel, but he chose the Naval Academy instead of West Point, was commissioned an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Freedom's Flight | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Architect of peace, and Belgium's new Premier, is Théo Lefèvre, burly, beak-nosed boss of the Social Christians. At 47, Lefèvre belongs to a rising new generation of European leaders, is scarcely known outside his own country. A wartime resistance leader, tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: No. 16 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Some wore long Johns and sucked oranges for energy. Others, bundled in sweaters, jumped up and down to keep warm in the 38° chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Finnish Line | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

A powerful Navy crew nosed out the Crimson lightweights at Annapolis Saturday to shatter the varsity's victory string at 32. Finishing first by 1.2 seconds, the Middles crushed Crimson hopes for their fourth consecutive undefeated season and threw a snag in their plans for an easy victory at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweight Crew Loses to Midshipmen | 4/24/1961 | See Source »

For those fellow-Americans who might not buy the sweeping idealism. Kennedy had a hard-nosed reminder: most U.S. economic aid comes back to the U.S. in purchases of American goods. "Cutbacks in the foreign aid program would be felt not only in loss of economic progress and hope abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: The Grand Plan | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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