Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring had come, and U.S. college boys, jaded by past triumphs in 1) goldfish swallowing and 2) panty stealing, took up last week a new game called Telephone Box Squash. It started in South Africa, sped on to England, and by week's end was the rage in California...
...long ago, no self-respecting intellectual would have admitted owning a television set, anymore than he would dare to express a liking for Norman Vincent Peale or California burgundy. But nowadays the TV box is no longer square. An intellectual can laughingly confess to TV addiction, and the lower-brow the program the better. Even so eminent a figure as Columbia University's Professor Mark Van Doren has been a convert ever since his son Charles triumphed on Twenty...
...Wendell asked him if it was true that Robert Hutchins was once chancellor of the University of Chicago. What are the ingredients of a martini? His opponents went down on such questions as: What city, once known as San Francisco's bedroom, is the third largest city in California? What two states at what dates came into the U.S. before Alaska...
...moved another stride toward the day when man will blast into space, and return, gliding through the atmosphere perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the runway, its engines spouting black smoke. From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing. As the bomber broke ground, it listed slightly from the dragging weight...
FIRST OFFSHORE OIL production in California, from a platform, will be started by Humble Oil & Refining Co. and Standard Oil of Calif. Two of 25 wells to be drilled on a 110-ft. square rig two miles out from shore near Santa Barbara have already produced as high as 865 bbl. per day in tests...