Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program have been brief and vague. Glenn L. Martin Co. revealed recently, for instance, that it will build a $5,000,000 plant, undoubtedly for missiles, near Denver. Shortly after such bits of news are made public, a bolt of industrial lightning strikes the locality mentioned. A cornfield or patch of desert blossoms with bulldozers; roads and railroads unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas, and a new breed of men move into town. They speak...
...front!" * Hughes wore no eyepatch until about five years ago (see cut), is reluctant to discuss it because of Christian Science attitudes toward injury and disease. He credits Christian Science with curing an illness that kept him bedridden in childhood, has said that he will not be wearing the patch forever. *By unhappy coincidence, ex-Budget Director Douglas also wears an eyepatch. In 1949, while U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was casting for salmon in West Hampshire, snagged a fishhook in his left eye. He adopted the patch to avoid double vision-incidentally inspiring the advertising campaign...
...public outburst, the quints resolutely went on living their own lives. They dodged in and out of their apartment, successfully bypassing swarms of newsmen and photographers. One night late in the week, three of them slipped out to a car, then drove 300 miles to Corbeil to patch up the family quarrel. The mission was successful; the three girls (Marie was ailing) were received with kisses and joyful tears and Papa Dionne announced that the whole sorry uproar was nothing but a misunderstanding...
...fever's center wais Pierre Mendes-France. Working feverishly to patch together in four weeks the coalition he had hoped to have six months to build, Mendes announced the formation of a "Republican Front" comprising his sector of the Radical Socialists, some ex-Gaullists, and the small U.D.S.R. But without the Socialists it would be a front without depth. The Communists, who captured one vote out of every four cast in 1951, were also wooing the Socialists with talk of a new front that could sweep them back into a position of major power...
Student spectators were just leaving the Union fire at 1:30 p.m. as James A. Sanderson, driving his empty bus back to the Square to reload, his a patch of ice in front of Plympton St. Sanderson was only traveling at five miles per hour, but, he later recalled, "I just touched the brake...