Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alcorn's selection caused some growling among right-wing Republicans ("The conservative wing," groused Michigan's stone-age Representative Clare Hoffman, "has been liquidated and is about to be buried"), but even these yowls seemed almost perfunctory. Serious, intense Meade Alcorn, who neither drinks nor smokes, has little of retiring Len Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated...
...rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory at Peenemünde, Sandys feels that Britain can be made secure only if it takes a bold stride into the rocket age. But his problem is the crushing cost of research development, and he hopes to widen the exchange agreement that he negotiated as Supply Minister with Wilson...
...After splashing about, the two Mikes reportedly had a drink together. Then twice-married Mike Wilding ex ited after freeing his ailing wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, who had a relapse after a shopping tour with him, to get a divorce and marry twice-married Mike Todd, twice her age...
...college-and never before has the competition been so keen. Last week the U.S. Office of Education estimated that before the school year is out, enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities will hit a record high of 3,250,000. This record comes at a time when the college-age population, which in 1955 sank to its lowest point in 25 years, is still made up mostly of Depression babies. The crisis that the U.S. campus is now bracing for is the coming invasion of war babies...
...world's most successful chimpanzee, would quit NBC's Today on March 1 after spending all but ten months of his life as Dave Garroway's ape-in-the-hole. First reports said that Muggs was retiring because of laggard health and old age. "Nonsense," said an NBC spokesman. "He's leaving Garroway for the same reason Nanette Fabray left Sid Caesar. He thinks he can make more money...