Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the thin, -104°F. air he fell freely, first face down, then atumble, then on his back-1,000, 5,000, 10,000 ft.-reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape-recorded his "subjective reactions and observations of this interesting experiment." On he dropped, like a stone into a void-until at an altitude of 12,000 ft., 2 min. 58 sec. and twelve miles after he had bailed out, a barometric device on his pack blew open his parachute...
Students in the Medical and Dental Schools, the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, Education and Public Administration face tuition increases...
...Paul Richards did on a smaller scale in the first two works. At the end of the play Carnovsky sits and looks silently out over the audience, and one feels that the self-awareness that allowed him to laugh at his own predicaments now gives him courage in the face of God's all too evident ironies...
...wife with his blessing. Five years go by, when a tiny hand turns the doorknob of the cart door, followed by dark eyes and curly locks. "Grandfather," says the little girl. "She can speak!" cries Marigold, as "the happy and yet pitying tears fell rolling down [his] face...
...Face the Nation (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller will field questions tossed by CBS Correspondent Stuart Novins and a panel of newsmen...