Word: tiller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reproving tut from one British newspaper by shipping eight-year-old Prince Charles as crew for a three-hour race through choppy seas in his 2g-ft. yawl, Bluebottle. Result: happy and salt-soaked as a clam, Charles had a fine time, pleased his papa by taking the tiller himself after they plowed past the finish line in fourth place...
...Cabinet word that was good news for the U.S. and the whole free world: the President is now ready to dispose of all problems that any department head might hesitate to settle on his own authority. Gradually but persistently, Dwight Eisenhower was getting a new grip on the tiller...
Portable Power. Minneapolis' Toro Manufacturing Corp. has introduced a lightweight engine attached to a metal handle that can be hooked up in seconds to a power lawnmower, tiller, edge trimmer or small snowplow. Weighing 39 Ibs., the "Power Handle" contains a 2¾ h.p. engine, is designed to eliminate the need for duplicate power units with each piece of equipment. Price...
...Type I wife is a "rare flower," a likely alternative is "Type II . . . a much commoner species." Pretty, educated and sensitive, she adds to rather than fits into the farm scene, is more suitable for the farmer who inherited his land from grandpa than for the poor but ambitious tiller of the soil. For her, intelligence and education are not necessarily handicaps; she "should be able to carry on a conversation with either the hired hand or a banker whose note is due . . . She should look well in blue jeans. It's not good if she runs to hips...
Saturday Night Revue (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). With Hoagy Carmichael's amiable hand on the tiller...