Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...End. In Las Vegas, Nev., the hearses and funeral cars of Bunker Bros. Mortuary are painted baby blue...
...North American defense terms, the most sensitive area of ocean on the globe is the stretch of the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and the Scotch coast. Over this area would fly any Russian bombers trying to end-run U.S.Canadian continental defenses; through these waters would likely come Russian submarines slipping out through the Norwegian Sea bound for attacks on Atlantic shipping or coastal cities. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy's around-the-clock fleets of radar patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers...
...forestall the expected cries from the Kremlin, the State Department at week's end sent a note to Moscow explaining the Navy's action, but not apologizing for it. As far as the U.S. was concerned, the incident was closed, but the Russians were on notice that the U.S. was keeping close watch on the Soviets' radar-packed trawlers and their omnipresent, camera-toting commissars...
...great lesser-known works of choral literature is the Requiem of Gabriel Faure. Written near the end of the 19th Century, this hauntingly beautiful score stands apart, almost completely detached from the influences of the late Romantic era. It is a brooding, restless piece, characterized by tentative, unresolved progressions, chromatic exploration, repeated figures, and a limited but unusual harmonic scheme. Above all it illustrates Faure's extremely delicate feeling for both line and texture, his carefully balanced sense of structure and climax...
...varsity track squad will try to end a generally disappointing season with a final flourish in the Heptagonal Track Meet today and tonight at Cornell. The Crimson will be hard pressed to finish higher than fourth in the ten-team Heptagonals, however, since no varsity performer is a clear-cut favorite in any of the 11 events...