Word: 46th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only one collision marred the 46th running of the Indianapolis 500, the fastest Memorial Day race-and one of the safest-in history. As usual, speed outstripped design: only 15 of the 33 low-slung racing cars that started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early...
...Warren Wacker, associate in Medicine in the Biophysics Research Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School, recently described his studies on the organism at the 46th annual meeting of the Federation of American Socities for Experimental Biology...
Division & Hysteria. A similar conclusion was reached by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which represents more than 1,000,000 Reform Jews. At the close of its 46th General Assembly in Washington, the Union accused the right-wing extremists of weakening the nation by "stirring division and hysteria." "We are fearful," the Union resolved, in a statement that was also directed against left-wing radicals, "that rational discussion is being corrupted by the hatred and fear fomented by ultra-right-wing groups which exploit cold-war anxieties and the frictions engendered by integration and other social problems...
...speech sounded fine at home, where Argentines felt an unaccustomed pride in their austere, crisis-ridden and not very popular President. Nor did it hurt when Frondizi showed himself highly human by ducking out of his hotel one evening, taking a taxi over to Broadway and 46th Street. He dropped into a cafeteria, ordered a steak and a beer, then strolled on Broadway, licking an ice-cream cone and rubbernecking like any tourist...
Last month the FCC approved the educational station for San Antonio (46th in the U.S.). Last week, as building plans were being drawn, Greenburg promised that the new station will shun "canned material from the BBC and the Ford Foundation," will be strictly a platform for great teachers to "shame" poor ones. "The classroom won't be a secret any more," says Greenburg. "It will be open to the public eye, and brother, teachers had better perform...