Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's left-wing NEW STATESMAN...
...fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters and gestures just right, Bruegel liked to dress in peasant's garb, attended the village festivals, probably danced and drank at the very weddings...
...McIntosh tied for seventh place among Ivy League scorers by netting three goals. The Crimson right wing scored the winning goal against Brown and counted against Dartmouth and Yale...
Planning translates itself into hardware. This week the first B-52E, an improved version of the B-52, will go to work for SAC; soon will come the B-526, designed to give the alert force 30% more range. The Air Force has contracted for 30 test supersonic delta-wing B58 bombers for phasing in beside the medium B-473. Already SAC has its first operational intercontinental guided missile: Snark, a lumbering air-breather that cannot break the sound barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than...
...Catching the same sort of fever that heated up Rice and Notre Dame, a couple of underdogs engineered a couple of astonishing upsets. Already beaten out of the Ivy League title, Yale put on a spectacular aerial attack to trip Princeton, 20-13. Running out of a winged-T, Mississippi's Rebels showed the kind of power they were supposed to see in Tennessee's single wing and ran over the Volunteers, 14-7. Among the even-money choices, Ohio State squeaked past Iowa 17-13 and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl to play Oregon, conqueror...