Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After three years, two months and 13 days of publishing the New Testament in daily installments (about 100 words), the Akron Beacon Journal set to work on the Old Testament. Estimated running time for the completed Bible: some 15 years...
...peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill and led the Boston Herald to call him "a poet of the underworld...
Counting CAA's 231 Omni-DME installations at U.S. airports and beacon stations, and the sets installed by many private aircraft owners, the new systems have cost an estimated $200 million. Last week the House Commerce Committee, after reviewing the controversy and the still-secret development of Tacan, turned up a shocking note: since 1948 the Navy and Air Force have spent $176 million to develop Tacan, but they candidly admit that it is still full of bugs. And Under Secretary of Commerce Louis Rothschild testified that Tacan is three to ten years from being perfected. Said A.O.P.A...
...Beacon. In Milwaukee, Salesman Jerome Keller, 41, caught speeding by police radar, drove his car to the edge of the trap, waved down approaching speeders until the frustrated cops packed up their equipment and went elsewhere...
...session was unique because Spring had ordered the students' arrest Tuesday night after he spotted them dropping water bombs out of fraternity house windows along Beacon...