Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Chicago, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, a close friend of Nixon's, told a different story. Addressing a convention of We the People, a conservative citizens' organization, Goldwater said: "Let me tell you, Nixon is a conservative. He was as shocked as you were at the invitation to Khrushchev to come to this country." Later, answering a question from the audience, Goldwater elaborated: "I can only relate what the Vice President said to me. He said he was greatly surprised. He had no knowledge of the invitation. He was surprised and disappointed the invitation...
...stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found. In 1876, Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vanished from the sales rooms of London's famed art dealers Agnew & Co., was returned for reward 25 years later by a onetime Chicago gambler. Even the Toronto Art Gallery has had its share of thefts. A small Rouault (The Surgeon) vanished from its walls in 1955 and is still missing. The same Rubens that is now at large was also stolen five years ago. That time, the thief triggered an alarm upon leaving, took fright...
...Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually no atmosphere, dust particles tossed up from the surface will follow trajectories like...
Culling Competition. The expansion has some alley operators worried. With fat profits (often 13% return on investment after taxes and a ten-year amortization of invested capital) have come new alley operators to share in bowling's bonanza. In some metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Detroit and New York City, bowling alleys have been overbuilt. Los Angeles, with eight bowling centers in a 3½-mile radius, has been faced with bowling price wars. But the national average is still one lane for every 1,900 people, and bowling proprietors feel that one lane per 1,500 population...
...Louis 11, Chicago...