Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall young man from Tennessee's Maryville College stared at the girl across the net and served viciously. The ball came back. For the next 30 minutes his best drives kept coming back at him with maddening regularity. He began to net his returns and overdrive the baseline. At last he ran up to shake the hand of his conquerer: the University of Chattanooga's Marilyn Voges. The score...
...individual and collective psyches. At famed Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Health Secretary Flemming rang in national Mental Health Week by clanging a "mental health bell" forged from the shackles once used to restrain patients. The volunteer National Association for Mental Health and its branches staged open-hospital days across the country, persuaded thousands of outsiders to come see for themselves what it is like on the inside. And in Philadelphia, birthplace of U.S. psychiatry and (in 1844) of the American Psychiatric Association, more than 3,000 psychiatrists met for the association's 115th annual meeting to give...
Lorraine Alverson's death came hard on the heels of warnings from the A.M.A. and the health commissioners of major cities that the filmy bags used to cover newly dry-cleaned garments should be kept away from children. So far, across the U.S. more than 30 deaths (including at least one adult suicide) have been blamed on the bags. Most victims have been young children, with four (aged four months to two years) in Arizona's Phoenix area alone. Reason for the concentration there is the low humidity: dry air increases the plastic's tendency to develop...
Biggest market for pools is still in California (70,500 at the end of 1958), but as construction techniques improve, prices dip and banks grow more willing to finance pools as readily as cars, backyard swimming pools are spreading across the rest of the country. Construction in northeast and midwest states (where pools often double as skating rinks in winter) will increase on an average of 70% over last year, and in southwest and mountain states a 61% increase in construction is expected in 1959. A 20-ft. by 40-ft. pool that cost $15,000 before World...
Died. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 67, India-born World War II commander of the British First Army, who led his fellow veterans of Dunkirk across North Africa from the west, captured Tunis in 1943; of pneumonia; in Gibraltar, where he had served as governor and commander in chief until his retirement...