Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next total eclipse in the U.S. will come on Oct. 2, 1959, and it will be visible as total only in southern New England. On March 7, 1970, the moon's shadow will cross southern Florida. The New York area will not see a total eclipse until April...
...Puzzled Banker. The board majority's view was more nearly summed up in Counsel Robb's cross-examination of John J. McCloy, board chairman of the Chase National Bank, former (1941-45) Assistant Secretary of War, who was one of the character witnesses on behalf of Oppenheimer...
protests. Of the 83-who have not been allowed to send or receive mail or even to have Red Cross parcels-64 are jailed: 35 civilians, mostly missionaries, 18 airmen shot down (according to the Reds) over Chinese territory, Π Navy and Coast Guard men picked up after air crashes off the China coast. Nineteen others are not imprisoned but are not permitted to leave China...
Wang also countercharged that some 5,000 Chinese students are illegally detained in the U.S. (only a few hundred of these asked for exit permits, which in most cases were granted). Then, unexpectedly, Wang thawed. Last week he promised that henceforth the Americans will have mail privileges and Red Cross parcels. He even hinted that, if their behavior as prisoners was good, there might be "commutations" of sentence and releases. Consensus: the Chinese were holding out one more string, seeing how seriously the U.S. rose to the bait, testing to see how much the U.S. could be made...
...shadow) will start in northeastern Nebraska, where the sun will be blotted out by the moon just as it rises. A little later, at 5:08 a.m., C.S.T., the shadow will sweep at 3,000 m.p.h. over Minneapolis, where totality will last 1 min. 10 sec. Then it will cross Lake Superior and head for Labrador, just grazing the southern end of Hudson...