Word: wind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David last week was briefly opened to newsmen for a rare look. Its 184 acres on the east slope of Catoctin Mountain are surrounded by a 12-ft. barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue golf bag, while not far away is a putting green with five pitching tees...
...them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely the times when the U.S.'s orbiting Explorer IV satellite, sent aloft in July, was in position to monitor radiation from the explosions. Taking the high-wind and rough-sea difficulties into account, Navy experts had estimated Task Force 88's chances of fulfilling Project Argus requirements...
Before a House Government Operations subcommittee, salty, short-fused Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover exploded with a touching plea. Unless Congress mows down the growing underbrush of Pentagon committees, he warned, "we will wind up with all committees and no work done. Our people have no time to do their work, for fighting committees. We need some protection." Lest anyone misunderstand, Rickover noted an exception: congressional committees are just dandy...
Some Chinese claims bring only sniggers in the West. Rowing times, for example, are meaningless because wind and water conditions vary so widely from course to course. But Britain's Runner Sylvia Cheeseman, one of the few Western athletes to have seen the Red Chinese in training, came back from a trip behind the Bamboo Curtain convinced that Mao's big-brotherly encouragement to sport is no joke. "The coaches have to stop the athletes from killing themselves with overwork," she says. "The Chinese will be among the top three or four nations in sport in the next...
Until a few months ago, the Eisenhower Administration stoutly rebuffed the "national security" pleas of lobbyists, who wanted to block imports of such items as watches and woolens. But the wind recently began to shift: the new chief at the office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Leo Hoegh, tossed out a bid by English Electric Co. Ltd. to build two hydraulic-electric turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, instead chose a 21% higher bid from Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., thus giving some political help to Republican Congressman Hugh Scott (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week...