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...aged 86, when his son departed after one visit. And once J.D.R. Jr. wired word of a coming visit to his ailing father, aged 96: AM NOT COMING BECAUSE I THINK YOU NEED ME BUT BECAUSE I KNOW I NEED YOU. The next year, aged 97, the old titan died...
Mighty Missiles. To the teeming pantheon of guided missiles-which already has Falcons, Navajos, Snarks, Matadors and Side Winders-Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles last week added some powerful names: for the Air Force's two versions of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: Atlas and Titan; for the new Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile: Thor...
...first Russo-American athletic contest since the end of World War II gave six U.S. musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells...
...itself; at least half his creations have been reworkings not of nature but of art in general. "I imitate everything but myself," he would explain. The savage speed of his experiments often led him in circles; sometimes he sacrificed progress to change. History may view him as a childish titan who almost absentmindedly laid vast granite foundations for a thousand castles...
Calmly and confidently, Britain's new Prime Minister took the torch from the old Titan's hand and prepared to carry on in his place. Sir Anthony Eden, 57, had waited patiently for the summons that he knew must come; the change had long been accepted as inevitable; the transition was smooth and speedy. Yet last week, when it did come, the replacement of their great Prime Minister struck Britons with all the suddenness of the sun going down behind Ben Nevis...