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...biggest package given any armed service. Most of the money will be spent for strengthening the carrier aircraft squadrons of nuclear-armed Douglas A4D-2N attack bombers and 1,400-m.p.h. McDonnell F4H-1 and Chance Vought F8U-2N jet fighters, plus Bullpup air-to-surface missiles, Tartar and Terrier surface-to-air missiles and torpedoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FOR FREEDOM | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...Poznauski's double in the eighth drove in a Terrier run, but Dick Diehl's single scored Ravenel for the Crimson's fourth run in the bottom of the inning...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Crimson Nine Defeats B.U. | 4/26/1961 | See Source »

...Myrtle, Miss. He started with the modest breed known locally as "potlikker hound," then traded his bicycle for two frayed foxhounds. At 19 Morton began training the teams of dogs that hunt bear through the canebrakes along the Mississippi-big hounds that run the bear into exhaustion, and darting terriers that hold him at bay while the huntsmen come crashing up. Says Morton: "Once, after we shot a bear we found a terrier named Frisco lying under him with a mouthful of bearskin and a look on his face as if to say 'Well, it's about time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog's Best Friend | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when he painted the Queen and the prince smugly relaxing after a hunt while a little princess royal frolics in a clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Worst Painter | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...final judging for best in show, Sister was matched against a bigger, white miniature poodle, a Scottish terrier, a parti-colored cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Sister | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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