Word: monica
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GUIDED MISSILE PROGRESS is so fast that Douglas Aircraft Co. will set up an independent missile engineering department separate from the company's aircraft work. Located at Santa Monica, Calif., new missiles department will have its own buildings and labs, a special corps of engineers to work fulltime on eight projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force...
British-born Monica Dehn, now 35, studied journalism at London University and worked in the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Balkan department before she went out to Jerusalem for a wartime assignment with a Foreign Office radio station beamed at the Balkans. When the British mandate ended in Israel, she stayed on because of her "terrific curiosity about the new state...
...helps TIME search out the thread of reality from the snarl of events in the Near East, an area of special interest to me since my wartime years there with the Office of War Information. Monica's beat is Israel alone. The nearby countries, including the Arab states, are covered by our Beirut Bureau, headed by Keith "Israel," Monica writes, "is a small country where 5,000 people buy TIME and a far greater number read it. This means that almost everyone I meet, from taxi driver to government official, knows exactly what has appeared in the magazine...
Full of respect for this impartial British woman, the Israelis know that she will report the bad as well as the good news of their country. Says Monica with firmness: "As long as I am here I will continue reporting both...
Just before 3 o'clock in the morning, as the Pacific purred foamily on the beach at Santa Monica, California's robustious Republican Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 58, was awakened by stealthy sounds in the bedroom of his waterfront apartment. Turning on a lamp, he saw a crouching prowler beside wife Virginia's bed. Never better in a crisis, Goody Knight, a nocturnal symphony in blue and white pajamas, leaped up, lunged toward the intruder, shouting, "I'll get him! You call the cops!" As Virginia screamed girlishly, the crook escaped over...