Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overdrive Test. In Bellflower, Calif., Truck Driver Lon F. Allen, 27, explained why he tried to run over a highway patrolman: "I wanted to prove I was not afraid of a policeman...
...ambitious runner, Allen Lipsky of Thayer North, attached a beer can to a stick in front of him, in an effort to spur him to great heights. However, his invention collapsed after a few yards...
...order to stimulate interest in science among the nation's youth, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute, has suggested scientific fairy tales to accompany "Mother Goose" stories. Bed-time lessons "on the origin of the numeral zero" should be inculcated in children in order to give them "a basic interest in science from an early age," preferably before they enter kindergarten...
...middle 19th century, Vermonters occasionally wondered whether their cherished Green Mountains might not disappear beneath a new deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about...
...last week and has a $2.1 billion backlog of military orders, estimates that it will have to borrow between $150 million and $200 million to meet payrolls and other costs. But after all the rumbles of wholesale layoffs shutdown plants and delays in plane deliveries, Boeing President William McPherson Allen seemed satisfied with the new targets. He expected to escape ''precipitous'' job cutbacks; he also predicted that both the Air Force's production schedules and Boeing's booming profits would remain intact...