Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aces was Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea: 16 Russian MIGs. McConnell believed in aggressiveness and good eyesight. "Everything," he once said, "I owe to my eyes." Also: "I can walk into a squad room, watch the men playing ping-pong, and pick out the best fighter pilots...
Said Mitchell: "All right. Let's look at the Dixon-Yates scandal." He was referring to the plan by which the Atomic Energy Commission will purchase electric power from two Southern utility companies to reimburse the Tennessee Valley Authority for increased amounts of TVA power to be used by the AEC. In approving the contract, Ike overruled the AEC majority (TIME, June 28). Mitchell's charge: "It so happens that a director of one of the two companies favored in the syndicate is one of the President's closest friends-with a cottage next to President Eisenhower...
Across the jack-pine hills of Idaho came the twang of a familiar guitar and the whine of an even more familiar baritone lustily singing: "From this valley they say you are going, / We will miss your sweet face and your smile." Glen Taylor, troubadour politician, ex-Senator (1944-50) and Henry Wallace's vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, had come home from self-imposed exile in California to ask a favor from the voters. Said Taylor: "I want to go back to Washington because I want...
...flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
Mainland papers recently smuggled out to Hong Kong indicated, however, that several million farmland acres were flood ed along the central Yangtze valley, that the 98-ft. dikes at Wuhan (pop. 1,000,-000), the tri-city of Hankow, Hanyang-and Wuchang, were under heavy pressure. Last month the Communists finally admitted that 600,000 "flood fighters" had been rounded up to work on the Yangtze dikes-more than 100,000 of them inside Hankow, where Red loudspeakers blared stirring martial music and Communist propaganda pep talks...