Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world newly come alive, trees and stuccoed buildings glistening magically in rain-washed brilliance. Overhead, winter's deep blue sky throbbed to the scream of jets and the snarl of conventional piston engines. But to the San Fernando Valley's children, raised around Southern California's cluster of major aircraft plants, the heavy traffic in vapor trails and engine noises was unmagically routine...
...oakleaf cluster to his badge as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year, Olympian Bobby Morrow won Texas sportswriters' vote as Southwesterner of the Year and Texas Amateur Athlete of the Year...
...former NATO commander in Europe, brainy General Alfred M. Gruenther, 57, dropped in at the White House to pay his respects to Old Friend Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Al Gruenther's Distinguished Service Medal Ike pinned a third Oak Leaf Cluster, wished him well in his forthcoming presidency of the American Red Cross. That afternoon Gruenther mistily watched a "retreat parade" in his honor, then met some 600 friends who gave him a farewell handshake in observance of his 38-year military career that ends this week...
Father Lombardi's better-world movement will eventually branch out into every important Catholic community, with Lombardi-trained instructors gearing the courses to each group and environment. But the light and power will emanate from the cluster of buildings in the hills above Rome, dominated by a circular church equipped with no fewer than 40 marble altars (so that numbers of priests can say their daily Masses with dispatch...
...businessmen marched into rural areas where industry had never set foot before, transforming crossroads towns into fast-growing cities. For years the sleepy little town of Twinsburg (pop. 1,250), Ohio, huddled on a road between Akron and Cleveland, was nothing more than a village square, a bank, a cluster of stores. This year Chrysler Corp. moved in with an $85 million body plant and jobs for 3,500. Now Twinsburg has big-city dreams. The town fathers are planning a $600,000 high school and a big shopping center, are putting up a 1,000-unit housing project...