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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stadium because it has the largest capacity of any local playing field, its parking facilities are relatively good, and the Harvard name would be an asset. The owners had built many of their plans around the Stadium and now must seek one of four alternative sites in the area...
...detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case. "The merchants should be made...
...their own house in Rock Lake, W. Va. Last year Sam bought a 25-acre farm in nearby Farmington to raise Shetland ponies. "When he was a kid, we couldn't afford a pony," says his father, who lives on the farm. "Sam wants every kid in the area to have the chance to ride a pony...
...Taste of Lemon. The flaw in all the research was that by 1957, when Edsel appeared, the bloom was gone from the medium-priced field, and a new boom was starting in the compact field, an area the Edsel research had overlooked completely. Edsel's styling, in particular the grille, which resembled an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon, was not much help, even after the lemon was removed. In its first six months Edsel made 54,600 cars, and then went steadily downward: 26,500 cars in 1958, fewer than 30,000 cars so far in boom-time...
...survey was commissioned by the Regional Plan Association, Inc., a non-profit organization which was one of the first regional planning groups in the United States. "Although we concentrate on the New York area, our survey will be used by city planners everywhere. We can give planners a good idea of which forces in a city they can change, and which they'll just have to live with," Vernon pointed...