Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend...
Into a remodeled brownstone in Manhattan last week swarmed 6.400 people interested in a plain cousin of the fine arts. The converted brownstone, on 53rd Street just off Fifth Avenue and hard by the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, houses the new $400,000 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, the first museum in the U.S. devoted entirely to handicrafts...
...Manhattan the biggest and glossiest project in the family's 150 years in New York real estate. Vincent Astor, 64, fifth-generation chief of the U.S. clan founded by John Jacob Astor, announced that he would build a block-square, 46-story office building at Park Avenue and 53rd Street, thus add to Manhattan's office space another million square feet, the air-conditioned, carpeted equivalent of 17 football fields...
Defending champion San Francisco, Iowa, Southern Methodist, and Temple moved into the semi-final round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Dons defeated a tough Utah team 92-77 for its 53rd straight victory. SMU eliminated Oklahoma City, 84-63, while Iowa jolted Kentucky 89-77. In the other quarter-final game, Temple edged Canisius...
...like?"). She did, and took to prostitution to get money for "H." Then she goaded her brother, 18, into the habit. In the last few days, testified the wife, she had been offered heroin three times while pushing her baby carriage on Manhattan's West 53rd Street...