Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whirling away were four other Republican hopefuls, including former Republican National Chairman Leonard Wood Hall, a Long Islander who had already got President Eisenhower's off-the-cuff endorsement. But not even sage Len Hall had a chance. By August, Rockefeller had collected delegates enough to turn the state Republican convention into a formality. By September, scarcely pausing for breath, he was on the campaign stump, attracting larger crowds than the most optimistic Republicans had expected. Everyone agreed Nelson Rockefeller was a political golden boy; everyone suggested a different reason why. Said brother Laurance, an amateur psychologist...
...High costs and the missile age made it impossible. To equip the R.C.A.F. with Arrows would cost something like $2 billion, and the first operational models would not be in service until 1961. A better bet was to spend the money on a setup like the U.S.'s SAGE system: improved DEW-line radar, electronic computers to guide 2,000-m.p.h. missiles such as the U.S. Bomarc. The tough-minded decision left the proud R.C.A.F. with little future as a combat flying force. Its role will be that of a missile operator, plus such auxiliary jobs as anti-submarine...
...Cautious Heart is British Novelist Sansom's fifth novel (among the others: The Loving Eye). It is sage, funny, benign and stamped with Sansom's special mastery of situations in which sex, humor and sympathy fight for supremacy in a human battle that never ends...
...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime apiece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...
Died. Edward Pearson Warner. 63. M.I.T.-trained aeronautical engineer, internationally famed air-age sage, longtime ( 1945-57 ) president of the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation (1929-35), vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; of a heart attack; in Duxbury. Mass...