Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second DC-3 and, Viscount included, the third Cubana airlines plane that Castro captured in as many weeks. He thus 1) deprived Cubana of nearly one-fourth of its planes, worth $1,160,000; 2) helped sever the government's air link to beleaguered Santiago, already virtually cut off by land; and 3) provided himself with the nucleus of an air transport force to service rebel columns marauding in Camagüey and Las Villas provinces...
...President Nixon ("Nixonism has replaced McCarthyism as the greatest threat to the prestige of our nation today"). Then Governor Harriman gave her a reason-by implying, in a radio broadcast, that Rockefeller was pro-Arab and anti-Israel. En route to Baltimore to visit the ailing mother of her fourth husband, Philanthropist Rudolf G. Sonneborn (and co-chairman of Democrats for Rockefeller), Dolly brooded and made up her mind...
Born. To Albert Fred ("Red") Schoendienst, 35, switch-hitting second baseman of the Milwaukee Braves, and Mary Eileen O'Reilly Schoendienst, 35: their first son, fourth child; in St. Louis. Name: Albert Kevin. Weight...
Psycho Somo-Tic. Huxley is prepared to concede that 2 billion may be company on earth, but that three will be a crowd. With the air of the fourth wise man, he says that "on the first Christmas Day" there were only 250 million. It took all the time since then until the Pilgrim Fathers to double the figure. When he was writing Brave New World, in 1931, world population stood at just under 2 billion. Today, "only 27 years later, there are 2,800,000,000 of us." People keep breeding, as it were, behind Huxley's back...
...dark horse is, of course, Pennsylvania. The Quakers are in fourth place with an ordinary 3-2 record, but convincing victories over Harvard and Yale the last two Saturdays led Coach John Yovicsin to pronounce them "the most improved team in the league." Considering that they lost to Dartmouth and Princeton by a total of only seven points earlier in the year, the Philadelphians may now be the strongest team around; Cornell will be in for a rugged time Thanksgiving...