Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES H. FARLEY Columbus, Ohio...
...Name? The extra head on the donkey put in a somewhat embarrassed appearance in connection with a Democratic strategy conference scheduled by National Chairman Paul Butler immediately after the governors' conference. When the Eisenhower-arranged meeting was over, Ohio's independent Governor Frank Lausche promptly headed for Columbus, leaving behind a sharp rejection of Butler's invitation to the Democratic session. Said Lausche: "I do not contemplate joining a political meeting to figure out ways and means of defeating the man who has just been my host." The same afternoon, Lausche had an angry answer from...
...many copies of Galen's works, they found that marginal notes of a 13th century physician offered innumerable clues to the medical practice of his day. It soon became obvious that precious little could be skipped without first being thoroughly examined. Now, with funds from the Knights of Columbus, Daly and Donnelly have eight electric cameras going at the Vatican, as well as two big developers, a printer and an electric splicer. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, a committee of 62 businessmen, including Roman Catholics. Protestants and Jews, is raising the millions necessary for the big Pope Pius XII library...
...into town with the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, promptly abducted Ballet Dancer Olga Koklova (whom he later married), set up house in Barcelona's Hotel Rancini. In a holiday mood, Picasso began turning out canvases in a bewildering variety of styles: a balcony view of Barcelona's Christopher Columbus column; a painting of a Spanish dancer lush enough to hang in a bullfighter's dressing room. Well into his cubist period at the time...
...nuclear plant in western Massachusetts, and hopes to have it finished by 1957. A second group of nine firms, including Detroit Edison Co., has asked permission to build another 100,000-kw. plant in the Detroit area by 1958. A third planner, Consumers Public Power District of Columbus, Neb., plans to have a 75,000-kw. nuclear reactor running in Nebraska a year later, while still a fourth group, including Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., wants to build a bigger 180,000-kw. nuclear power plant near Chicago...