Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Energy Commission is taking no chances this time with the sonic aftereffects of its Nevada bomb tests. A team of experts led by Dr. Alvin Graves, scientific advisor for bomb-testing, has just returned from a mission of reassurance through eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. When the next series of devices begin exploding this month, Dr. Graves hopes that the neighbors will take it calmly...
...already amassed $6,000 this year, all used for scholarships. The losers get wristwatches. To Co-Producer John Moses the biggest surprise of the two-year history of Quiz Bowl is the continuing dominance of Minnesota ("You'd never expect a Midwestern school to keep knocking off these Eastern colleges"). Last season the Gophers won eight straight before being upset by Brown-Pembroke. This year, after tying their first match with Georgetown, and winning by a narrow margin the second time they met, the Minnesotans have won twelve in a row. Only the combined team of Brown and Pembroke...
...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...
...Look. Because the new single-breasted suits closely resemble those peddled for years to Eastern college students by Brooks Brothers, retailers refer to the new styles as the Ivy League Look. They have become such a widespread trademark that natural reaction has already set in. In Broadway's newest comedy The Grand Prize (see THEATER), a harassed Manhattanite shouts: "I'm tired of wearing Brooks Brothers suits...
...varsity will travel to Amherst, while the freshmen are facing an unusually strong Exeter squad in the Blockhouse. On succeeding Saturdays the varsity will wrestle Princeton, M. I. T., and Yale, the matches with the Engineers and Elis being away. The final test of the season will be the Eastern championships, held this year at Penn State on March...