Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives of campus organizations and extra-curricular groups arrived in Cambridge last weekend for the annual Cedar Hill Conference...
Next day, a black van brought Evita's silver-trimmed cedar casket to the triangular Ministry of Labor building, where her body was laid in state in the gold-domed room she used as an office during her rise to power. While the casket was placed in a huge horseshoe of mauve and white orchids, Peronistas gathered outside until finally there were half a million of them; four were killed, 2,500 injured in the crush. At length the ministry's doors were opened, and the grieving mob poured in to peer through the casket's full...
Scented Plastics. In New York, Plastron Inc. put on the market flower-scented plastic shower and window curtains. Developed by Monsanto Chemical Co., the scents are blended in while the plastics are being made, are guaranteed to smell like roses, carnations or cedar for several months. Price: $1.98 for the shower curtain, $3.98 to $4.49 for curtain sets...
Last week the National Bureau of Standards was proclaiming that high-frequency waves do reflect from the ionosphere and can get around the earth's curve. The bureau got the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...
Something different happened. Bureaumen Ross Bateman and G. Franklin Montgomery had little trouble picking up the Cedar Rapids signal. Slanting down from above, it was faint but continuous...