Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discussion Postponed. Last week, well aware that the sacred mobilization-base concept is due to go out the window as deterrent costs rise in future budget planning, the Army fired another resounding round in the running Pentagon war (TIME, June 4) as the generals and the colonels dug in for a convulsive last stand. Leaked to the Army's dependable friend, able New York Times Correspondent Anthony Leviero, was inside information that Admiral Radford proposes to cut the U.S. armed forces from 2,800,000 to 2,000,000 in the next four years. The Army and Navy, said...
...asked for a short haircut, and that's what I gave him. After I got through, he looked in the mirror and yelled, 'You've cut off my sideburns,' then jumped out of the chair, threw the apron m my face and twisted my arm round until it broke...
Soldiers Field tennis courts resounded this week as players in the men's and women's singles divisions of the 1956 Summer School Tennis Tournament began first-round matches...
Deadlines for the succeeding rounds of men's singles are July 28, August 4, and August 9. August 28 is the date for the second round of women's singles. The dates and times set for all final matches will appear later in the Summer News...
...Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down in history as "Wrong Way Corrigan." Then five years ago, Roosevelt's history-making days seemed over; housing developments were going up all around...