Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's space-age notes...
...carrier Valley Forge, eight destroyers, two submarines, a squadron of Valley Forge-based Grumman 52F sub-hunting aircraft, a helicopter squadron, a land-based patrol squadron of P2Vs, blimps, 5,000 men, a vast electronic network of electronic eyes and ears. Its armament is a marvel of the Atomic Age: included are nuclear depth charges, nicknamed Betty and Lulu, each with sufficient explosive force to lift the entire U.S. Navy (901 ships) clear out of the water...
...quite work out that way. There were a few scholarships, but the ballpark is still in the talking stage, and the "better jobs" did not materialize. Coach César Faz had another problem. Over the fall and winter all but one of his boys passed the Little League age limit of twelve, and he had to recruit a whole new team. But love of baseball, and the prospect of a trip to los Estados Unidos if they were good enough, served to draw the makings of another fine team. Last week in Williamsport, Pa., Monterrey was back...
...stopped in the small (pop. 19,000) upstate New York glass-manufacturing center of Corning. On view in the Corning Museum of Glass, which is part of the new laboratory and research center of the Corning Glass Works (makers of Steuben crystal) are 128 choice examples from the greatest age of Venetian glassmaking: the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries...
...throne) must go, said a bishop last week. Reno's Roman Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer, who blasted Nevada's nightclub nudity last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 18), told a study group in Cincinnati that the concept underlying the cathedral has "lost its reference and validity for the age we live...