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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the approval of both his parents, Johnny Pair of Atlanta had his left eye removed two years ago to check the spread of cancer (retinoblastoma) along nerve pathways to the brain. Now Johnny, 5, has suffered a recurrence of the disease. His right eye is gradually losing its sight, and doctors say that unless it is soon removed he will certainly die. If he is operated on, they give him an even chance of survival. His mother, Mrs. Bessie Pair, 32, favors the operation. But she is now divorced from Arnold Pair, 36, and surgeons refuse to operate without...
Handlin called the Administration's foreign policy "a succession of retreats," but noted that the Geneva conference "momentarily kindled the hope that an end to the cold war might be in sight...
Idealism or no, the speech was perilously close to a flop. Even the hired TV eye could not blink away the sight of an uninspired audience. Next day the Stevenson camp was blaming the teleprompters and the bad acoustics in the hall. But the Kefauverites were not so charitable, told each other and whoever wanted to listen that Adlai Stevenson had failed to land any solid political punches...
Long on Deeds. At first sight the Old Man in The Eyrie seems an improbable sort of American hero and historymaker, maneuvering about the island with his sets of blueprints and his inevitable 4-ft. rule. He is a middling-sized man with even features, warm and straightforward eyes. He is aloof to the point of inaccessibility; he is shy to the point of pain, finding it almost agonizing to call even his closest friends by their first names. "I don't see how you do it," he said one day when two old friends were first-naming each...
...even more spectacular type of loft-bombing is used when there is no good landmark to sight on near the target. In such cases, the pilot sets his LABS apparatus for "over the shoulder" bombing, and pulls up into his climb when he is directly over the target. LABS does not release the bomb until the climbing curve has progressed a little beyond the vertical. When the bomb leaves the airplane, it rises in an almost vertical trajectory. It is not quite vertical, however. To compensate for the horizontal distance that the airplane covered after it passed over the target...