Word: wing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well before Dienbienphu's day of defeat came, many Frenchmen at home had given up. "Verdun?" said the moderate left-wing newspaper Combat bitterly. "Verdun was a position which could be held at all costs because the entire future depended on it ... But what does Dienbienphu mean for the French fighting man? ... An obsessive, slow and stubborn war. A terrible kind of war for which the French were not made-because they have clear intelligence, and like to know for what they are fighting. They are impulsive, and need to have a little glory stirring their flags, a little...
...Institute of Human Relations, founded in 1929. "Its purpose," says Professor Mark May, "has been to correlate knowledge and coordinate techniques in related fields so that greater progress may be made in the understanding of human life." Though more or less autonomous, the Institute takes under its wing research projects from regular Yale professors. These include everything from an investigation into how people change their attitudes to the curing of some mental disorders by the re-education of emotions. Through such projects, the Institute hopes to collect a backlog of information that will tell man as much about himself...
...face value which seemed to contribute heavily to McCarthy's side of the case: it showed just Stevens (smiling grimly) and Schine (beaming). As delivered by Welch, it had quite an different face value: it showed Schine standing between Stevens and Colonel Jack T. Bradley, an wing commander at McGuire, and the sleeve of an fourth man next to the colonel...
...Havilland has reported no clues. But there were dozens of possibilities. British airmen were inclined to discount the theory first advanced that a flying turbine blade had caused the wing fuel tanks to explode, since the last Comet to crash had special armor between engines and tanks (TIME, March 22). Most think it more likely that either the kerosene-type fuel, which becomes highly volatile at high altitudes, exploded, or that vapor from a leaking hydraulic line might have been touched off by a spark. Others guessed that the big jet's power-operated controls, which give the pilot...
...John Kenneth Cannon, 62, retired Air Force general, took over as chairman of the board of Fletcher Aviation Corp., one of the largest makers of detachable wing tanks for the Air Force. One of the world's great air tacticians, "Uncle Joe" Cannon put in more time in uniform than any other Air officer (37 years), commanded the Twelfth Air Force during World War II and the U.S. Air Force in Germany during most of the Berlin airlift. He replaces Wendell S. Fletcher, who will continue to serve as corporation president...