Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neatly arranged, seven up, seven down. Only trouble: nobody is sure what a 49-star flag will look like officially-provided the bill passes the Senate. The U.S. Code does not stipulate the arrangement of stars, only that one shall be added for each new state, effective the Fourth of July following admission to the Union. In the congressional hopper are proposals, drawings and samples of 49-star flags. Suggestions: five rows of five and four rows of six; 49 stars in a wheel; 49 stars spelling out U.S.A. The 49th star is still waiting. For the story of what...
...fourth failure in five attempts to launch a Vanguard satellite...
...Solomons, Don Felt got another big moment in the Pacific. In the years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from Alaska to the Indian Ocean...
...cold logic on their side. Despite its rapid urban development, Alaska is still a wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing and timber...
...hour hand of the clock high on the wall of the National Assembly crept past 3, the hour of final reckoning arrived for the Fourth Republic. In hushed silence the Deputies watched General Charles de Gaulle in a single-breasted grey suit stride to the podium, heard him proclaim in less than seven minutes the terms on which he had accepted the summons to power...