Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb-shaped General Curtis Emerson LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, landed at March Air Force Base near Riverside, stepped off the ramp, glanced at his watch, then stared dourly at the calm, brilliant sky, and waited. Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line...
Washington is swinging round to the view that the U.N. Emergency Force in Sinai should occupy the Aqaba strongpoints as the Israelis withdraw, and stay until a settlement can be negotiated, to assure Israeli ships continued free passage to the Red Sea and the markets of Asia...
...banded together as the Blakeley Psychiatric Group, went to Architect Kirk with a special problem. As one of them stated (with some symptoms of frustration): "Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo. Once my attention was taken from a patient by the sight of a whisky bottle swinging on a string outside my office window." They wanted a new building custom-tailored to their needs...
...View Halloo! In Portland, Ind., a jury deliberated for 2½ hours, then acquitted Kenneth P. Stolz of drunken driving after he testified that he had steered his car down the left side of the road before his arrest because he was looking for fox tracks...
...rank. He emphasized "This is not to say that there are brighter or abler students in college now than there were five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which is too low for the present generation of students...