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Beyond their relatively small deposits, the only monetary stake the airlines have had in the SST until now has been an agreement to help the Government recoup its investment by paying royalties once their planes are delivered. To be sure, the "progress payments" will not account for much of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aircraft: On the Line | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

It takes an uncommonly big man to run a state like Texas, or "Coonass country," as the Governor calls its rural hinterland. Fenstemaker goes with the job as red beans go with fatback. His instincts are generous, his vision broad, even if his political methods are not exactly taught in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fenstemaker for President | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

Without a map and pointer, President Johnson had to resort to statistics to illustrate just what an ornery place the world was. In no fewer than "eight different situations," he told a White House press conference, the U.S. had "demonstrated anew" its determination to keep the peace. Lyndon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Mapping the Sore Spots | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

One exasperating day back in 1903, so the story goes, an Oklahoma cowpoke named Bill Pickett was having an infernally tough time persuading an ornery steer to head into a corral He whooped at it and pleaded with it, prodded and battered it, until in furious frustration he leaped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rodeos: The Bulldogger | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

By and large, his public ignored the Frost who quarreled with the world. They knew and praised instead the Frost who was a praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover's Quarrel With the World | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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