Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive as the schedule sounds, Susskind worries. Television, he feels, is not alerting the country to the dangers of strontium 90, the political genius of Adlai Stevenson, the awful problems of the upcoming Geneva conference. That is why he organizes high-sounding discussions on his Open End show. Says his wife: "It's his Alexander the Great complex." Although, at 38, Susskind is undoubtedly TV's most successful dramatic producer, the complex keeps him going. "I want to have my own marquee value, like Sam Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille," he says. "Then I wouldn't always...
...Burly Mike Souchak, onetime Duke University end, fired a brilliant 6-under-par 66 in the first round, kept the pressure on, posted a two-stroke victory in the $46,620 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas, Nev. Runner-up: Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., who faded on the final nine holes...
...pound or so, which might be a transmitter designed to broadcast its voice over thousands of miles of empty space. Near it was what looked like a cylinder of dirty pink soap. It was plastic foam, encasing apparatus that might be destined to orbit the sun until the end of the solar system. Puffing on a battered pipe, Van Allen peered, commented, sketched an idea for a new circuit, then was summoned to take a long-distance call from the Army's rocket lab in Huntsville, Ala. So the day began...
White Sands. Jim and Abbie were married in the fall of 1945 and settled down in suburban Silver Spring. With war's end, Van Allen had no further interest in fuses or weapons. He wanted to get back to studying cosmic rays. He learned that the U.S. Army had captured nearly 100 German V-2s and was planning to fire them at White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., with sand instead of explosives in their warheads. Van Allen, along with several other scientists, was offered the privilege of substituting instruments for the sand...
This year and next, Ward's will build 30 retail department stores, about 85 catalogue stores, four distribution centers. By the end of 1963, it will add a total of 90 new retail stores, 205 new catalogue stores, ten new distribution centers. Gearing for the expansion, Ward's boosted Executive Vice President Paul M. Hammaker, 56, to president; Chairman Barr gave up the presidency, remains chief executive...