Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane and pull off some stunt such as circling the globe nonstop. Reason: While the U.S. is spending about $100 million a year in a slow development of the twelve-year-old nuclear plane program, planners have made a command decision that a nuclear plane in the present state of the art, has so many military drawbacks that the program...
Rotating majestically, the oblate-spheroid world in miniature dominates the lobbies of the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune, and its Minneapolis Tribune and Star. The identical globes (6 ft. in diameter, 19 ft. in circumference) turn once every three minutes, display the time of day anywhere on the earth's surface with accessory sets of clocks. For the four Cowles newspapers, the globes have a heart-of-America symbolism that is apt and obvious: far more than any Midwestern rival, the papers emphasize reporting and editorials that attempt to tell how the world is spinning...
Representatives from preparatory and high school newspapers will register at 4:30 p.m. Some will visit the new Boston Globe plant, while others will tour the University. During the day, each of the visitors will meet with a CRIMSON editor who has studied his paper this fall. The staff will demonstrate all phases in the publishing of the CRIMSON...
Dean Monro and Donald Willard of the Boston Globe will speak to the representatives tonight at a Harvard Union dinner. At a luncheon tomorrow, they will meet Louis Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, and several of the Nieman Fellows...
...Japan got one for his 62nd birthday, and a Belgian expedition setting out for the Antarctic announced it was taking 20 along to keep its members fit and happy. Not since the Yo-yo had a U.S. craze spread so far so fast. The hula hoop had circled the globe...