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...sensitive and a little selfconscious, Stevenson was not completely at home in his new campaign methods, and at times he was embarrassed. In Los Angeles' Pershing Square, for example, he approached an old man sitting on a bench and said: "I'm Adlai Stevenson." Growled the bench-sitter: "I know who you are; get the hell out of here." But Stevenson made the new formula work...
Trapeze (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists). Less than a century after Phineas Taylor Barnum raised it high, the Big Top is folding all over the U.S. (TIME, May 28), and the Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze may soon pass into history with the flagpole sitter and the Human Fly. Trapeze is an attempt by Producer-Actor Burt Lancaster-who got his start in show business as an acrobat-to give the sons of the leotard what may prove to be their last fling in the big time...
...small delta wing with a fuselage about 30 ft. long. It now has conventional landing gear for test purposes, but is designed as a "tail sitter" (sitting on its tail on take-off). When rising or hovering in the vertical position, it probably depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near...
...Sitter. In Sydney, Australia, convicted of living off the earnings of his prostitute wife, Colin Lindsay, 23, explained testily in central court that he could not work because he had to stay home and mind the baby...
...have no way of knowing how many of Superintendent Smith's Kindergarten mamas are truly considering their children's best interests, and how many are just anxious to have a glorified baby-sitter for a few hours a day [Sept. 5]. Won't parents ever learn to stop pushing their children to satisfy their own selfish desires? Immaturity in a child meeting the school situation for the first time often means headaches for the teacher and parents, and sometimes develops in the child a dislike for school that can not easily be erased. Perhaps this incident will...