Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down: Ike trained for the Columbine's 19-step ramp. When Guatemalan President Castillo Armas arrived to visit Ike, the Washington Post and Times Herald's Eddie Folliard went along, too. Later Folliard told the press corps: "It's obvious that he's lost weight, as the doctors wanted him to. He looks completely lean. His color is good. He has a ruddy look. His eyes seem clear. He was animated, as he always has been, a man in motion . . . lean and sharp...
Down four pounds to his West Point weight of 172, Ike was impatient to get going. Reporters asked Dr. Paul Dudley White when Ike would be in a position to decide his political future. Not until January at least, said White. Even more cautious was Ike's personal doctor, Major General Howard Snyder (who lost 6 Ibs. during Ike's illness). "I kind of think a bit longer," said he, "bit longer." For the rest of his last week in Denver, however, Ike began presidential duties in earnest. He received a stream of reports on the Geneva conference...
...agitation against both South Africa and France comes chiefly from the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, which found a community of purpose at Bandung and has been throwing its weight around since. India in particular, said Du Plessis, has "pursued a vendetta" against South Africa almost since the beginning...
Born. To Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hangdog clown of the Ringling Bros. Circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth), and Elveria Gebhardt. 22, onetime circus acrobat: their first child (his third), a girl; in Sarasota, Fla. Name: Stacia. Weight...
...crankshaft. Instead, there are two pistons, at opposing ends of the cylinder, which force gas at tremendously high pressure into a turbine. The turbine, in turn, transmits power to the wheels through a simplified transmission. By eliminating the crankshaft and a complicated transmission, the free-piston engine cuts weight, cost and loss of horsepower by friction, thus is more efficient all around...