Word: 51st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...structure than the one originally conceived of in the Union, he feels. "We have initiated a contribution of a new and different kind in the American constitutional system. It is the first new development since the thirteen original states. We want to be the 14th new development, not the 51st old development...
Will Puerto Rico become the 51st U.S. state? The one-two admission of Alaska and Hawaii variously stirred regrets, misgivings or condescensions last week on the U.S. island in the Caribbean that calls itself a Free Associated State, or Commonwealth. El Mundo, the island's largest newspaper, admiring the tidy formality of the link to the Federal Government that the other noncontiguous territories achieved in statehood, called the commonwealth relationship "a sloppy and ridiculous rag doll." The Statehood Party (24% of the vote in the last election) took new hope. But the architect of commonwealth, Governor Luis...
George Wald, professor of Biology, last night was awarded the 51st award of the Rumford Premium of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
MANHATTAN SKYSCRAPER hotel, 48 stories tall with six stories of offices and 2,000 rooms, is planned by Builder William Zeckendorf for site across from Radio City on Avenue of the Americas at 51st St. The $66 million building is slated to start in fall, finish in 1961. Name: the Zeckendorf...
Died. William Frederick ("Willie") Hoppe, 71, courteous, peerless billiard master, a whiz at six who won his first world title (18.1 balkline) at 18, his 51st (three-cushion billiards) at 64, was, for most of his life, the greatest player in the world; of cancer; in Miami Beach...