Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bitter Tea. The Warsaw talks were nothing new. Despite U.S. nonrecognition of Peking, U.S. and Red Chinese envoys met 73 times between August 1955 and December 1957, with the U.S. constantly pressing Red China to renounce the use of force in the Formosa Strait. What was negotiable that had not...
FULTON, KY. (pop. 4,800), tree-lined streets, courthouse in square, frequently called Kentucky's "southernmost city" because of location on Tennessee state line, plantation tradition, Deep South accents. Named for Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton but grew up around important, longtime Illinois Central Railroad junction; lately pressing industrialization campaign...
All week the little bothers weighed on a man who could not put aside one truly big one: the Quemoy crisis. Eisenhower, briefed regularly by calls from Washington, spent much time on the direct White House telephone at Fort Adams' "Quarters No. i," an eight-bedroom Victorian frame house...
The face belonged to 43-year-old Hyman Marcus, onetime mathematics teacher who forsook ivied halls for finance. In 1952 Marcus bought into the debt-ridden U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., a money-losing pressing-and-dry-cleaning-machine company. After he gained control, Marcus announced grandiose plans to buy up...
The coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all...