Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill that he found his real home. Often mistaken by tourists for a Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering the 1952 and 1956 presidential nominating conventions for TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged the footsteps of Wisconsin...
...horn, flies and eats people?" (Answer: a one-eyed, one-horned, flying people eater.) Wooley composed the song in an hour, hyped the People Eater's voice in currently approved fashion; he achieved the toy saxophone sound of the People Eater's horn by recording a regular saxophone at reduced speed and playing it back at high speed. The record took off immediately...
...conventions, no less than 18% of doctors' electrocardiograms proved to be "definitely abnormal or borderline." An equal proportion of chest fluorograms showed definite or suspected abnormalities, including tuberculosis, cancer, or something wrong with the heart or great vessels. Dr. McArthur's prescriptions for fellow doctors: 1) more regular examinations ("An Annual P.E. for Every M.D."), 2) more relaxation, and 3) better organization of the work load, e.g., set aside one morning a week to see only one type of case...
...paid only one common-stock dividend. All the rest of the profits go for research in a ratio that holds company expenditures to 30% for production and 70% for research each year. Eventually, probably by 1960 when Titan and Polaris are in production, Aerojet will pay its stockholders regular dividends. But never so much that it cannot lay a big bet on any exciting new field that opens...
...onetime baseball pitcher (Fordham and New York Giants), Al Williams joined the Navy in World War I, started a 13-year flying hitch that produced such acrobatic innovations as the inverted falling leaf, made him one of the many fathers of dive-bombing, ended when he resigned from the regular Navy in 1930 in protest against sea duty. A Georgetown-trained lawyer, he was no less articulate than air-minded, wrote a syndicated Scripps-Howard newspaper column while he worked as flying salesman and good-will man for Gulf Oil Co., meanwhile kept a part-time military franchise with...