Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...design engineers. Three were naval officers (two Annapolis graduates), three from the Air Force (no West Pointers), and one was-as he put it-"a lonely marine." Obviously the selectors of the seven had remembered the separate services, and in the flood of applicants for the first trip into space, it was no problem to get good men of three uniforms...
...first trip into space will be a new human experience, to be highly desired by courageous and adventurous men, but fraught with hardships, difficulties and danger...
After his Moscow trip, Macmillan first talked of "disengagement,"' then softened this to the possibility of a "thinning out" of troops, then of a "freeze" at existing levels, and currently the fashionable word is a "ceiling" on troop strengths. But rather than having specific proposals, Macmillan seems simply eager to have something to talk about, and to be convinced that talking is all to the good. He has even begun to speak of a "re-occurring summit''-a kind of periodically assembled global board of directors...
...White House announced that Sir Winston Churchill will make an "informal" U.S. visit with Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower next month. The trip was postponed a year ago after Sir Winston came down with pneumonia. Earlier last week Cigar Chomper Churchill, about to fly home to England from the French Riviera, jauntily puffed on a cigarette, a rare indulgence for him, but he was back on big black stogies by the time he reached London Airport...
Finding himself in Ghana last week, on an athletes' tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department, Bragg seized his chance. On the first break in his closely packed schedule, he took off on a 100-mile trip into the tropical jungle. There he came face to face with a towering, vine-festooned tree. "Isn't this fabulous, Daddy!" he cried, and heaved himself aloft up a 60-ft. vine. Wearing a varihued. skirtlike Tahitian pareu that he fancies, Bragg spent a happy hour emitting Tarzan yells and swinging from branch to branch. "This is why I came...