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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force's college reserve officers' training program as outmoded as the B-17 bomber? Fortnight ago, John D. Millett, president of Miami University of Ohio, posed the question on behalf of 176 college and university administrators gathered for an Air Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C. problems at Maxwell A.F.B., Ala. Continued changes in policy have caused growing tension and occasional open hostility between the colleges and the junior service. Even former Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted to the educators that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program "suggests a considerable amount of lost motion," since only 4,000 officers...
...Tante), "depend on a good review from Atkinson." Says Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. (J.B.): "In terms of influence, Brooks is worth any four of the other critics." These awed testimonials go to a man who shifts uneasily beneath the burden of his influence ("Power bothers me; I'd rather not have it"), and who says he got into drama criticism for purely mercenary considerations: "I got interested in the theater mainly, I'm afraid, because you got free tickets when you wrote about...
When Rogers reached 40,000 ft., he leveled off, and a ground radar guided him toward the 18 km. (eleven mile) course that is specified by the F.A.I. (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) in Paris. He lit the afterburner and opened the fuel control to the limit. Quickly, the ship accelerated past Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound). The F.A.I, specifies that an airplane trying for a straightaway, level-flight record must not climb or dive more than 164 ft. over the course. To respect these narrow limits at better than 1,500 m.p.h...
...president of Los Angeles' American Hospital Management Corp., prodded him into doing something about it. Said the dentist: "Why don't you get us a dental hospital in Los Angeles? Then a whole job like this could be done in two hours, and we'd both live longer...
...child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close to believing that whatever is is good. In "Articles of Belief" he offers up a characteristically benign prayer, "O Creator, O Father, I believe that thou art Good, and that thou art pleas'd with the Pleasure of thy Children...