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"Your Tail Is Gone." Up to the Valkyrie's starboard side sidled a needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter flown by the nation's-and perhaps the world's-finest test pilot, Joseph A. Walker of NASA, who in 25 flights in the X-15 rocket plane had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Fall of the Valkyrie | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Hard-Nosed. As yet, Costa e Silva has said almost nothing about the direction his government would take, except that "economic-financial policy must have continuity if it is to fulfill its objective." That seems to mean that he will keep on with the hard-nosed austerity program laid down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Making of a President | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

"The genius of this place," says Scott, "is the concept of theology as an interdisciplinary undertaking." >JOSEPH SITTLER, 61, Lutheran, professor of theology. The leading campus spokesman for ecumenism, he combined parish ministry with teaching at a Lutheran seminary before coming to Chicago. He says Chicago "is not protecting any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seminaries: Chicago at 100 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

"I was standing there," one of the eye witnesses related, "when someone said 'Get to the rear of the store.' I looked up to see a dark-complexioned curly-haired man holding a small cocked snub-nosed pistol. He repeated the order, and I walked to the rear past the...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: Pistol-Toting Duo Robs Cahaly's, Escapes With $300 From Register | 3/22/1966 | See Source »

All but invisible to the show's patrons is the hard-nosed business that goes into every new bloom. With 44 million U.S. gardeners spending an estimated $5 billion each year on everything from peat moss to chamois-colored gloves with green thumbs, companies such as Jackson & Perkins and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garden: Make Way for Spring | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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