Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little about the effect his self-centered personality has on others. Says he: "I am not engaged in a popularity contest. I want to win basketball games." So far this season, Kentucky has won them all in tough competition, e.g., St. Louis, West Virginia, Maryland, at week's end ran its record to 11-0 by dumping Georgia Tech...
...Judged from the broad end of the picture tube, television had a bad year; its brightest moment shone like a candle in a morass of mediocre programs. But commercially, the industry seemed to be doing better than ever. Advertisers paid out a record $1.42 billion, a gross increase of 10% over 1957. By year's end the U.S. had a total of 512 operating TV stations (there were 495 at the end of 1957) catering to nearly 50 million TV receivers...
...himself was never meant for the likes of The Ed Sullivan Show. When he was discharged from the Navy as an asthmatic in 1943, he was 17, and he entered Chicago's Goodman Theater to study acting. "I was pretty damn good," he confesses further, but he would end up working at a Daytona Beach, Fla. hotel. ("I ran around with a volleyball bothering people who didn't want to be bothered...
...their first announcement, they could already say with confidence that the final stage had attained escape velocity. On Saturday they could announce that at 9:59 p.m. E.S.T. Lunik had passed the moon and plunged on into outer space on an orbit around the sun. At week's end it was 318,000 miles from the earth and still going strong...
Worms notwithstanding, Teacher Duff plans to end her year-long Stateside furlough this month, fly back to continue educating the Amueshas. Her task: to teach the Indians to read, to transcribe literature-including the Bible-into Amuesha. using a phonetic alphabet she helped devise...