Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with grief for all the countries of the world, as well as for the United States, that I heard of President Eisenhower's heart attack . . . How appalling must be the weight of the responsibility of the decisions we put upon our President, no matter how much advice and assistance we give him, when so many of those decisions are, in the long run, his alone to make...
With a combined weight of 440 pounds, Canadian law student Don McDonald and Ireland and the Business School's Mike Corrigan are good prospects for an outstanding second row. Leading contenders for the other two forward positions are Stu Nickerson and Dmitri Marchessini...
Friday. The President's appetite continued to be good, and at breakfast he asked for, and got, a strip of his favorite beef bacon. But his doctors restricted him to a rigid 1,600-calorie-a-day diet to keep his weight down. During the day two hospital orderlies lifted Ike to a new hospital bed that can be raised and lowered from the floor by an electric motor. The apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur...
Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...
Anybody who wants to see the whole show at the Exeter can stay to watch the main feature, Holiday for Henrietta. A fairly amusing if rather light-weight French comedy, the picture relates the agony of a couple of script writers trying to grind out a scenario for a new movie. Each idea they dredge up is shown acted out as if it were part of the finished production...