Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...missiles: it can be recalled, recovered and redirected, can seek out mobile ground targets, and if it misses them, come back to fight again. But the Valkyrie's futuristic design embraces qualities far beyond the capabilities of a mere manned weapon. At its Mach 3 speeds and ultra-high altitudes, it makes an inexpensive, i.e., retrievable, launching platform for earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first-stage launching vehicle for the man-carrying Mercury capsule...
...Unveiling. Inaugurator and chief manipulator of Afghanistan's profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...
...smashed Japan with winds up to 135 m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River alone. Japanese railroads, cut in 120 places, virtually ceased...
...floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan since the war. In a three-day cleanup campaign, 1,000,000 Peking residents claim to have collected refuse, dirt and mud sufficient to build a wall "three feet wide and 21 feet high, running 1,200 miles from Peking to Canton." And in an outburst of planned gaiety, the commissars had promised a brief bounty of meat, clothing, and children's toys, including space rockets that trail sparks...