Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound thinker who takes balanced viewpoints, Engineer-Scientist Quarles as Air Force Secretary maintained deep interest and close touch with his first love-research-but never favored it unreasonably. Nor has he overfavored the Air Force itself.* Preparing a 1958 budget, Quarles helped trim preliminary requests totaling $23 billion down to $17.7 billion. Then he went up Capitol Hill to assure Congress calmly that, rather than ask for more, he felt $17.7 billion was sufficient to buy the kind of airpower the U.S. needs...
Beefy Adhemar is a handshaking charmer with a common touch. Beginning as a member of the São Paulo state legislature in 1934, he went on to become governor, first by presidential appointment, and. in 1947, by the ballot box. He grew wealthy in office-but at the same time built hospitals, roads and schools. His luck ran out in 1954 when he lost the governorship to Jânio Quadros, who campaigned on the charge that Adhemar was a thief. In the 1955 presidential race, Adhemar ran a poor third...
...could Wilder explain how liquor helps? Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long walks. I drink a great deal, but I do not associate it with writing...
Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Don't Touch Me, a drama, with Shelley Winters, Warren Stevens, Mildred Dunnock...
Hanley in the100-yd. freestyle (for failing to touch on a turn), Yale held a slim four-point lead going into the final relay. But in that event Yale was disqualified (for a premature start); Michigan, tying with Michigan State for first place, earned twelve points. Final team standings: Michigan 69, Yale 61, Michigan State...