Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp memory and a penchant for collecting. Her memory, even after more than half a century, still warmly cradled the color and sound of the faraway Pacific islands that she visited as a young missionary for the Congregational Church. Her collections-sea shells, bits of pressed vegetation, samples of earth and coral-cluttered her antebellum house on Oberlin's East College Street, where she lived quietly the last 50 years...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.) Eleven NBC correspondents flung in from the ends of the earth hold a round-table seminar of what goes from Washington to Moscow...
...baffled most of the experts. But it was no mystery to the investors whose buying sent it up. In 1958 they could plainly see for the first time that the U.S. was blessed with a new kind of economy, different from any ever seen on the face of the earth...
...tried. Many of the Midwest's one-industry towns had some rough months. In Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor is not just a barometer of business but the whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher and the department stores of Cedar Rapids, Iowa were 4.5% ahead of last year. In the South, where new industry was moving in 50% faster than last year...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12). Nothing like a new look at the earth after Christmas, and this one is a fast summing up of what 10,000 scientists from 66 nations have learned during the International Geophysical Year...