Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without casual spectators around, but with 20 stop-watch-clicking officials timing his every stroke, Buffalo's George Breen boiled through the water of Yale's 50-meter practice pool and broke his own world record for the mile (19:40.4) with a fast...
...KROL Buffalo...
...extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes-100 cartons a day-the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce...
...Along. To almost every Canadian, the U.S. is an enveloping fact of life. Most of the population lives within 200 miles of the U.S. border. Collectively, Canadians travel south of the border some 27 million times a year, and get some 27 million visits by U.S. residents in return. Buffalo TV stations regularly draw bigger audiences in Toronto than does the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Canadian Novelist Hugh (Two Solitudes) MacLennan complained recently that a Canadian writer has to get his book published in New York before his countrymen will...
Strongly biased (all but the first pro-Republican): New York Post; Buffalo Evening News; Chicago Herald-American; Minneapolis Star (whose publisher professed belief in news "without bias or slant or distortion or suppression"); Boston Post (whose major efforts during the period were the championing of Senator McCarthy and the denunciation of the Boston Public Library for housing Russian literature); Detroit Free Press (which at the end of the period said it was "proud of its long record of unbiased coverage of the news"); Indianapolis Star; Los Angeles Times; New York Daily Mirror; New York Daily News (whose president said...