Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nose cone blazed in last August after a 1,200-mile flight at a speed of more than 9,000 m.p.h., it coolheadedly ejected a parachute to brake its plunge, and popped out a balloon and a letter (later successfully delivered to Army Missileman Major General John B. Medaris). Next it fired off several small bombs just before "impacting" in the water to let the Navy outfield know where to look, then dangled flags and a flashing beacon above its watery resting place. As a broadcasting station, it popped out antennas, began "beeping" out its location. Then, for good measure...
...August, 1949, years ahead of the most pessimistic U.S. predictions, the Russians achieved their first atomic explosion. Far from urging a crash program to produce an H-bomb, the Atomic Energy Commission's influential General Advisory Committee of scientists, chaired by Oppenheimer, voted flatly and unanimously against any H-bomb program...
...splashy, arresting style is strong on color and well suited to her subject matter, e.g., a moody painting of Chapultepec Park's beer garden at closing time. Marx will show her works in Dallas and Houston in the spring, have her second baby in June, and in August set off for Paris...
...house. Others in the running: House of Dior Designers Yves Saint Laurent and Yorn Michaelsen, who worked closely with Dior. Company will probably coast along for a year on momentum and designs left by Dior, but test of its ability to continue Dior's flair will come in August with showing of big winter collection...
This week "Goodie" Knight yields to the law of political necessity. The august Los Angeles Times has announced that he is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958. Few, perhaps, will remember that two months ago, faced with a gubernatorial primary battle with Senator William F. Knowland, Knight vowed to seek a second term as governor, regardless...