Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subsonic air-breathing missile was a sound concept before physicists found out how to fit a nuclear warhead into a ballistic missile. Had the Air Force's air-breathing Snark been pushed to completion on its original schedule three years ago, it could have filled a gap in U.S. air strength. By the time the first (and only) Snark wing was put into operation this year in Maine, Soviet defenses had more than caught up with it. Counting total development costs ($740 million), the Snark is one of the most costly, wings ever formed...
County Sheriff Earl Robinson and Garden City police found the other bodies: Wife Bonnie in an upstairs bedroom, Herb Clutter and his son Kenyon in the basement. The killers had murdered coolly, systematically. They had bound their victims hand and foot with nylon cord, gagged Nancy with a scarf and the others with two-inch-wide adhesive tape. Then, one by one, they had slaughtered the Clutters, shooting each in the face with a shotgun held a few inches away. Before or after shooting Herbert Clutter, the murderers had cut Clutter's throat. Whatever terrible rage seethed inside them...
After hours of wrangling between industry lawyers and Government officials, both Flemming and the cranberrymen (who have already given up use of the chemical altogether) agreed to keep on testing samples from cranberry lots. Products found free from taint were to be so labeled (Certified Safe, Examined and Passed), and freed for sale to housewives preparing for Thanksgiving. Obviously, not all of the 70-odd million Ibs. of the holiday batch could be tested in time. Shoppers who could not find certified stocks at their grocers would have to take their chances with untested lots-if indeed the stores...
Murphy was never found, but Charlie Porter found his role. After declaring war on Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, he next turned his attention to seething Cuba. When Fidel Castro invited a group of U.S. Congressmen to Havana on an expenses-paid inspection tour, only Porter and Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, another have-tux Congressman, accepted. But Castro turned out to be a disappointment ("I've urged him from the first to shave his beard," says Porter), and Porter thereupon looked around for new worlds to explore...
Phoenix's new urge for culture is part of the national tidal wave that has nearly doubled museum space since World War II, has found art societies and institutes sprouting in towns that once would have been hard pressed to support a framing shop. Phoenix itself started modestly enough when, in 1915, the Woman's Club set up an Art Exhibition Committee to improve the quality of art shown at the Arizona State Fair. Even as late as 1940, Art Patroness Maie Bartlett Heard gave the city nearly a full city block for a civic center, only...