Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intercollegiate Championship and second undefeated season in three years was never a sure thing. The team had to be up for Army, Navy, Williams, Princeton, and Yale. Against the Elis, Lee Folger had to win the final three games in his match after being down two in order to save the match...
...watching too many movies on TV, RCA Chairman David Sarnoff warned that "the true function of television will have failed if the film programming snowballs so as to become the dominant appeal." In an interview published by the trade paper Variety, Sarnoff holds out little hope that TVmen can save themselves from the movie blight. "Fortunately," he adds, "we have the public and advertisers to decide this for us . . . They may agree with us, or the movies-on-TV networks will take over...
Last year, as a result of a save-our-school campaign by alumni and friends, Congress opened hearings to determine the academy's status. Impressed by the record of Kings Point's well-trained graduates (all bound to eight-years' service in the Naval Reserve) and wanting to strengthen the merchant fleet, the House and Senate decided that the U.S. could ill afford to lose the school. Henceforth Kings Point cadets will be appointed by their Representatives and Senators, will know for the first time that their diplomas will be as valid as those of West Point...
...investing in its first jet-powered basic trainer, the Air Force hopes to save money by sharply reducing the flight hours necessary to qualify a cadet for supersonic fighters and bombers. Flight cadets will drop 90 hours of prop training in North American's T-28 trainer, take the stick of the Cessna jet after only 40 hours of basic piston-engine flight in Beech's Mentor (T-34. In the T-37, instructor and student sit side by side instead of tandem. With 150 hours in the T-37, the student can step up to Lockheed...
...position on the jets will enrage the Arabs and aggravate the French, it cannot further either of its conflicting aims in the Middle East--mutual security or the protection of Israel. Israel is not a part of the vital northern tier which Dulles feels must be armed to save the Middle East from Communist attacks. Nor would the jets really give Israel internal security: she could never maintain enough to forestall a large-scale aggression, while just a few warplanes might stimulate that aggression. As Dulles himself has pointed out, Israel is too small to hold...