Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan, the Ismaili Moslem sect decided to give their spiritual leader, the Ago Khan, his weight in platinum on his 75th birthday next week. Platinic worth of his approximate 240 Ibs.: $300,000-$1,900,000 less than the 243½ Ibs. in diamonds...
Memorial Hall, that great, disputed, stranded galleon of the Harvard state celebrates its 75th birthday this year. Once described as "the most frightening building in greater Boston," praised as a "great, bristling brick Valhalla," it has served generations of Harvard men in its multiplicity of function regardless of architectural merit...
President Conant said Saturday that all card-carrying Communists should be barred from the teaching profession. He spoke at Eugene, Oregon, at the University of Oregon's 75th anniversary convocation...
While the American Chemical Society was getting ready for its 75th birthday party in Manhattan next week, some of its members were already thinking about the 75 years ahead. For the diamond jubilee issue of Chemical and Engineering News, they described a brave new universe where every home will have two-way wireless, space ships will circle the moon (see below) and the scientists will inherit the earth. Among the wonders the citizen of 2026 will take for granted...
...Excuses Needed Before Pimlico's 75th anniversary Preakness† last week, Brookmeade Stable's Trainer Preston Burch was feeling pretty chipper. Burch was not only 1950's leading money winner, but he also had a sharp brown colt named Bold running for the second star in racing's triple crown. Burch confidently announced that Bold was "as fit as can be, and will have no excuses if beaten...