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...time when the entire nuclear, missile-armed Navy will move underwater) the admirals plan that the heart of the task force will remain the attack carrier with its steam catapults, mirror landing system, angled flight deck, and mobile strike power. Forrestal and Saratoga will be joined by Ranger, Independence and a still-nameless carrier, all now under construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Like Shane and Hondo, Jubal is just one of those ordinary cowboys who can shoot like Buffalo Bill, ride like the Lone Ranger and smile like Roy Rogers. And, like every other cowboy (except Roy Rogers), Jubal has had an unhappy family life--Mama Jubal hated him intensely and Papa Jubal was sliced to pieces by a steamboat...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Jubal | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Russia Whips the World | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...York Rangers' training camp in Saskatoon, Sask. was a dismal place last fall. Every hockey player there had read in the papers that his team was a cinch for the National Hockey League cellar. They were all resigned to their fate-until their new coach, former Ranger Center Phil Watson, started giving them the needle. "Last place?" snarled the fiery Canadian. "Why, I never finished last in anything in my life-not even in a poker game. Last season the rest of the league scored 210 goals against the Rangers while the Rangers made a lousy 150. This year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Watson System | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...celebration of the divine office." First they set to work to find how the divine office should be celebrated. The result was the rediscovery of Gregorian plain song. And so compelling was the force of their meticulous research and meticulously conducted services that by the time Abbot Guéranger died in 1875, almost all the churches in France were following the liturgy of Solesmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Singing of Solesmes | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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