Word: belt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full explanation of the Pioneer's two-day venture into space must await careful analysis of the data on its flight. Overeager public-relations officers pushed into print a statement that Pioneer had shown that the radiation belt around the earth falls off sharply from 4 roentgens per hour at 5,000 miles to 2 roentgens per hour at 17,000 miles, and that this meant that future space wayfarers should not have much to fear from radiation. But the project's scientists promptly warned that such apparent discoveries may prove to be the result of instrument failure...
...island of Corn Belt Democratic strength (it was the only non-Southern state to go against Dwight Eisenhower in 1956), Missouri has ten Democratic Representatives, only one Republican. Second District (St. Louis) Republican Incumbent Thomas Curtis is in real trouble against Lawyer James L. Sullivan, former chief counsel for Thomas Hennings' Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. Curtis has been badly hurt by a migration to his heavily suburban district of workers from heavily Democratic South St. Louis...
...despair of corn-belt grammarians, Democratic Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless ("the Democrats have did") is also the despair of Iowa Republicans, still smarting at Loveless' conquest of the traditionally Republican state capital in 1956. Pitted against Loveless this year is tall, lean, scholarly William G. Murray, 55, professor of economics at Iowa State College, a tireless and dedicated campaigner who shook hands in all 99 counties during the primary campaign, will visit all 99 again before November. A political novice, Bill Murray has previously dipped in politics no farther than the Ames school board, between campaign stops avidly reads...
...state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the coal-mining regions. Roman Catholic Lawrence may have trouble in the rural Bible belt; Pennsylvania has never elected a Catholic Governor. All the while, Republican McGonigle (a Lutheran) is whaling away at the sins of Democratic Governor George Leader (who is running for the Senate), and Pretzel-maker McGonigle's earnest approach is winning small but sympathetic audiences. But in machine-ridden Pennsylvania...
Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish...