Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type player"-which is another way of saying that baseball is Wally's life. From the time he was old enough to throw a ball, Wally worked out daily with his father, an unreconstructed semipro. After school, when the chores were done on the Moon farm near Bay, Ark., Wally and his father sweated over the fundamentals of baseball. When he was still a barefoot boy in blue jeans, Wally was playing Legion ball with the Jonesboro (Ark.) Juniors, and big-league scouts were already impressed with his speed and his easy skill at bat. But Wally...
...Sawyer hurried home to Fort Smith, Ark. (pop. 47,942) and went to work, getting bills drawn up to outlaw this "national menace," thundering against it over his radio program. To get his point across, he played a tape-recorded "confession of a 13-year-old nudist girl." Nudist Norval Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek...
...building up TVA to carry a bigger load, the Administration wants AEC to sign a 25-year contract with two big private-power outfits, Middle South Utilities, Inc., and the Southern Co. Together, the two plants would build a $107 million power and transmission plant at West Memphis, Ark., on the western edge of TVA territory, about 200 miles from AEC's Paducah, Ky. installation. The private companies would then turn over their new power to TVA, thus releasing an equivalent amount of TVA power from local use for AEC. All costs up to $107 million would be borne...
First Congregational Church Little Rock, Ark...
...Sinai, where God gave Moses the two stone tables containing the Ten Commandments. Wright projected a huge (175 ft. wide by 100 ft. tall) pyramidal structure in the form of a distorted hexagon. The main auditorium will seat 1,200. Dominating the interior will be a 40-ft. high ark of the covenant, faced with colored glass to symbolize the burning bush that was not consumed. The pulpit will be in the center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader and the congregation." The exterior will...