Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many people, I feel sure, will be grateful for your story [Sept. 8] on Milton Eisenhower, the President's younger brother. I am glad to find that I was wrong in my belief that he was a liberal of the type to be feared, in view of his closeness to the President...
...Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket...
...obscure the view through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...Pair Gold Cup at Miami Beach's Americana Hotel. In a game whose fascinating frustrations can bring out the worst of man's nature, he remained bland and smiling. In a game where a peek can be worth two finesses, he carelessly held his hand within easy view of roving eyes. He actually treated kibitzers as humans ("I might as well love them. I'm married to them"), and he went out of his way to describe his partner, a perky strawberry blonde named Helen Sobel, as one of the world's greatest bridge players-which...
...Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon on TV, the planets unfold their secrets, and the narrator's tone loses none of its confidence...