Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, a move to replace the resigned members with six of the town's leading bankers fizzled when the bankers politely declined. For a while it seemed that there might be no new board; but before the deadline, 15 citizens, most of them known segregationists, filed for the six posts. Facing the new board after its election: a ruling last week by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering continued desegregation of Little Rock schools...
...week's end Rodzinski abandoned his air of detached tolerance for a role more familiar to the Chicago fans. Down with a heavy cold, Rodzinski announced that on doctor's orders he was forced to cancel the first performance of Boris Godunov (which probably means that he will cancel all three). "You know why he needs all those doctors?" confided his wife to 'tiptoeing guests. "To tell him that he's all right...
...been more heavily guarded than the MOLE (Molecular Orbiting Low-Level Explorer). First hint of its existence came last spring when a Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said...
Veteran Test Pilot Robert M. Stanley of the Stanley Aviation Corp. (makers of airplane subassemblies) tackled the easy end of the problem: how to get the crew down to earth alive if their vehicle misbehaves on launching or while it is still in the atmosphere. The men will be in the nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must...
...Oosterbaan a couple of seasons back. "I'm on top now, and there is a lot of backslapping. But what of seasons to come? Let me lose the opener or a couple of other games next fall, and then watch how I'm blasted." An All-America end for three years running in his undergraduate days, Bennie is a gentle, unorthodox type who thinks a boy should pick a school and then play football, and this is contrary to recruiting doctrine these days in football's big time. This year Michigan managed only two victories (both...