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...Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: SeaMaster | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...young David Eisenhower, on his way home from summer camp and a week with grandfather. As soon as the Columbine was aloft, David, at grandfather's insistence, exchanged his Davy Crockett outfit for a pair of white pajamas with red dots. Within a few minutes he was snug in a berth in the President's private compartment. Ike turned in soon after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Change of Plans | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank you very much for the hat," beamed Molotov as he returned to his train. "We must all work for world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vyacheslav Dalevich Karnegiev | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...crew of three was mustered under Bertrand's own command to guide the cargo to snug haven, and when all was in readiness, the anchor was raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Wine-Dark Sea | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...cold-shoulder the stranger who threatens their peace of mind. Harding defends himself by putting a steely armor on and letting his heart freeze up. By war's end, Harding has surrendered because he no longer believes that creative man can ever win. He settles tamely into a snug U.S. professorship. "The Faculty had no idea that it was a glacial shell of a man who had come to live among them, mainly because they were themselves unfilled with anything more than a little academic stuffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tongue That Naked Goes | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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