Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next year the Concord's Owner Arthur Winarick may have to. Competition in the Catskills is continuous. Million-dollar swimming pools, championship golf courses, lobbies as big as Latin American airports are commonplace now. Grossinger's, affectionately known as the "G," even boasts its own aircraft landing field. If Kutsher's, another high-priced hostelry, should suddenly sprout a polo field, the G or the Concord might be forced to build an artificial sea beach, complete with waves...
...Voice of Truth), Zamana (Times) and Sadaqat (Righteousness). Last week they laid bold plans to float a bigger government loan, hire a pool reporter and three stencil cutters, organize group circulation and sales crews. Observing from afar, Governor Husain sent congratulations: "Bound to create history in the field of journalism." But then, Quetta's weird weeklies had already, in a sense, done that...
...after," Britain's army and air force warmed up. The first man, Army Captain R. M. ("Red Rory") Walker, 29, rode a motorcycle from Marble Arch to a floating dock on the Thames, leaped into a helicopter, transferred to a jet trainer at Biggin Hill R.A.F. field for the flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris' Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash: 57 min. 47 sec. "Sissy stuff," roared...
...past. Captain Kangaroo has cost CBS more than $1,500,000 a year; but the wigged, whiskered, grandfatherly old party with his big, pouchy pockets and perky hats is far and away the best in the often over-cute field of children's TV. His real name is Bob Keeshan, and his secret is that he talks softly to the kids, tells them what makes the world tick, with the same fizzless, unexcited manner that NBC's Dave Garroway uses on their parents. (In the same time slot. Kangaroo consistently matches or beats Garroway in the Nielsen ratings...
...deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum" comes from the Latin word for racecourse does not mean that just any foolish subject should be entered as an added starter, says Wriston, citing universities that field a whole hodgepodge of courses...