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Wrote the Poplar Bluff, Mo. American Republic: "Uncle Bungle has done it again!" Said the Washington Post and Times Herald: "The incident has had the momentary effect of damaging the prestige of the U.S., of alarming or embarrassing the allies, and of fueling Mr. Khrushchev's propaganda machine. This country was caught with jam on its hands." Asked the Chicago Sun-Times: "Was the information to be obtained from the flight worth the possible political loss suffered by the capture and exploitation by the Reds? It is hard to put the wings of peace on the cloak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press & the U-2 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Gentleman'sGame."In high school, Palmer got a stern lesson in controlling his temper on the course. Infuriated by flubbing a shot in a junior match, he sent his club sailing over a poplar grove. Going home, he found himself in a car with a grim father. "Pap told me that this was a gentleman's game, and he was ashamed of me," says Palmer. "If he saw or heard of me throwing a club again, he was through with me as a golfer. That did it." Settled down, Arnie Palmer twice won the state high school championship, then headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: For Love & Money | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

KEITH J. RUDERT Poplar Bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...immense green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Love and the 'System' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...Agna Boass of Greycroft House and Sherburn, Biology; Mary E. Costanza of Coggeshall House and Quincy, Philosophy; Rebecca Hoge of Everest House and Wayland, English; Ellen B. Kritzman of McIntire House and Glenhead, N.Y., Biology; Mrs. Dorothy M. Mermin of Cambridge, English; Lynn V. Moorhead of Cabot Hall and Poplar Grove, III., Biochemical Sciences, and Janice D. Rowe of Greycroft House and Woburn, Far Eastern Languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe Elects 7 Seniors to Chapter | 11/22/1957 | See Source »

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