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...Prompt Response. Both systems put a severe strain on the pilot. Besides flying his airplane and watching intently for the first sight of the ground below, he must also watch the ILS instruments or listen to the GCA talker, or do both to check one against the other. When the plane gets near the ground, both landing systems abandon it. The pilot must make the final approach and landing himself, though the visibility may still be too poor for him to see the ground properly. With the pilot's attention so completely occupied, any emergency, such as minor mechanical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let George Do It | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Some of the reactions to the Flynn criticisms of the church might well prompt us as Protestants to be less concerned with the characteristic weaknesses of Rome, and a little more anxious about the vast morasses of sentimentality and human pride in which parts of the Protestant Church are sinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Consensus | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Perhaps the unique . . . gesture of congratulation to T. S. Eliot on his receipt of the Nobel Prize came from four State University of Iowa students. They sent him a jazz record then popular-Ray McKinley's You've Come a Long Way from St. Louis. A prompt acknowledgment came from Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...least one man in the high councils argued against prompt action on the new weapon. David Lilienthal, whose views are highly respected by Harry Truman, had stayed beyond his appointed date of resignation as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission primarily to debate the subject, and last week was even at loggerheads with at least one of his own fellow commissioners. The peace posture of the U.S. would sag shamefully before the world, he argued, if the U.S. started the H-bomb without first making a new and genuine attempt in the U.N. to get international control of atomic energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Loaded Question | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...been played to death, Reporter Truman talked a while on behalf of the President of the U.S. "I think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Kitten on the Keys | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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