Word: commands
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...subsidies), and farm surpluses must be reduced by overseas sales programs and giveaways, by free school-lunch programs and gifts to depressed areas. He talks in terms of "managed abundance," and if Kennedy pushes through Congress the control-heavy farm program he campaigned with, Freeman will be in command of the greatest federal managing operation short of the Commander in Chief himself...
...Dirt. But they had all reckoned without the tough streak in the little Lion of Judah-and without his still-widespread popularity. Haile Selassie flew straight for the airstrip in Asmara in Ethiopia's Red Sea state of Eritrea, which was still under command of a loyal general. As his plane grew nearer, the plotters' fortunes began to wane. They could not even secure control of all Addis Ababa, and shells whistled into the center of town from loyalist army posts. In frustration, the rebels shot a few government officials they had captured and then fled into...
Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...
...standard operating procedure, an Air Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...
...finds it almost impossible to sit still for long. "I get bored easily," says he, but the boredom has paid off handsomely. To keep himself interested, he has never stopped experimenting, and his paintings have managed to arouse the admiration of figurative and abstract partisans alike. They command up to $15,000, and in Manhattan hang in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and the Metropolitan. Last week 15 of his latest paintings were on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, proving that the restless Rivers just keeps rolling along...