Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal works projects. In the years before Kerr went to the Senate, the Army engineers had spent some $63 million on Oklahoma water-development projects; they have since spent an estimated $312 million. In October 1961 President Kennedy flew to Kerr's 55,000-acre ranch near Big Cedar to dedicate a road that, in the words of one Oklahoma paper, "starts nowhere in particular and goes to a suburb of the same place." Even at the height of his power, Kerr still took the most pride in what he had done for his own state. As he flew...
Making his own crowd at the Seattle World's Fair, Kansas Rancher Glenn Cun ningham, 52, world's greatest miler in the 1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said...
FREDERICK J. MILLER Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...still do not know the boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such U.S. 12-meters as Vim and Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from...
...constitution will be presented to student leaders and members of the Administration at the Cedar Hill Conference today. Voting will take place in the dormitories next Sunday and Monday, following discussions to be held in the halls this week. Results will be announced Tuesday...