Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hybrid with the best features of both. The Army made much of the fact that the less complex Jupiter had performed well in tests, while Thor, in its three tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third time. Finally, after two strikes and a foul tip, Thor had saved Air Force face by hitting a mighty home run. More importantly, its undisputed success had added a mighty score to the West's defenses, particularly from NATO nations and overseas bases: Thor in last week's test traveled not just 1,500 miles...
...more desolate spots than the Grand Canyon's Granite Gorge, where the millracing Colorado River widens, flattens and becomes the tip of Lake Mead. The nearest town, Peach Springs (pop. 550), Ariz., is 50 miles away. Yet there last week was a marvel of modern engineering: one of the world's longest single-span freight tramways, stretching 9,010 ft. across and 2,800 ft. up to the south rim. Its purpose: to haul bat manure out of caverns where it has lain for ages and hopefully net the haulers $12.5 million profit...
Echoing through the halls of Congress, in Washington's Government agencies and the nation's corporate boardrooms, the great debate of 1957 is about the complicated balance of the U.S. economy. Which way will it tip? Not even the men in charge of the nation's economic policies can agree. The Federal Reserve Board still warns of inflation as the consumer price index keeps climbing (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Yet an equally august body, the President's Council of Economic Advisers, argues that the danger of inflation has passed. Last week in Washington, a single, persistent note...
...Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz with two girls in order to "bring up to date" a story she had sold the magazine about a night she had spent with him in 1944. Rushmore said that Francesca de Scaffa. ex-wife of Actor Bruce Cabot, not only passed on a tip she had obtained in bed with one star but offered to have an "affair with any man" to swell the magazine's story list...
...Tip on a Dead Jockey (MGM) offers a transposed version (from Paris to Madrid) of Irwin Shaw's story about an ex-Air Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his rationalized pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling...