Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party flew to Detroit, where the King tried out G.M.'s experimental, bubble-topped Cadillac Cyclone, gave equal time to Ford and Chrysler, heard familiar cries of "Leve de Koning!" (in Flemish: "Long live the King!") from some of the city's 38,000 residents of Belgian descent. Moving fast, he did Chicago in 20 hours, ended his week in Dallas. With reserve strength needed for a dozen more cities, including visits to Disneyland, SAC headquarters and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, Baudouin took a day off, enjoyed a relaxing round of golf, matched grooved swings with Old Master...
...picked a genial younger man for the test of power in the gubernatorial primary. Chandler's early choice: his Lieutenant Governor, Harry Lee Waterfield, 48, tall, shy native of Tobacco (pop. 50) and publisher of the Hickman County Gazette. In the state capital at Frankfort, Waterfield had learned fast from a master teacher, joined Chandler in ownership of the new Indian Hills subdivision, to which their highway department conveniently ran a state road. Aside from fighting down the scandals, Waterfield's toughest campaign job is to shake loose from the increasingly unpopular Happy and still get the nomination...
...Kantrowitz' indoor waves are only about half as fast as the waves that Professor Gold theorized as coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
...every fair minded undergraduate, recognizing the work and needs of the Annex, would sympathize with any movement tending to improve its facilities. The work that it has been accomplishing, the increasing number of students and the annual enlargement of its curriculum indicate that the Annex has fast been pushing to the front among our colleges for women. If, by joining the Annex to the University we can advance the cause of broader and more liberal education for women and can place that part of the college in the fore most rank of women's colleges, it is our part...
Boone, winner of four games this spring, may be a valuable lefthanded addition to the Crimson varsity pitching staff. He has a good curve and fast ball, and is also effective as a batsman. Coach Samborski thought that Al Yarbro and Roy Williams, in addition to Boone, would rate a chance on the varsity mound staff, which will lose two good righthanders this June...