Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...Percent of increase California 76,921 14.8 City University of New York 50,288 5.5 Minnesota 42,178 9.8 Wisconsin 38,920 14.8 Ohio State 35,804 9.4 Illinois 34,781 12.6 Michigan State 33,357 23.0 Indiana 30,977 18.2 Missouri 26,605 18.1 Michigan...
Died. Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, 74, sharpshooting medical administrator, an Indiana surgeon who proved his organizational skill during World War II as head of U.S. medical operations in Europe, went on to whip the chaotic Veterans Administration medical service into shape and then become head of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield health-insurance plans, all the while waging a running battle against unethical practice, including fee splitting, unnecessary surgery and exorbitant prices; of cancer; in Washington...
...Obviously, it doesn't pay to make Arkansas mad. Texas Tech was leading the No. 2-ranked Razorbacks 17-14 at halftime; the final score was Arkansas 42, Texas Tech 24. Harvard beat Yale 130. Other scores: Washington 27, Washington State 9; Tennessee 19, Kentucky 3; Purdue 26, Indiana 21; Ohio State 9, Michigan...
...injection-molded cabinets (with which it hopes to fight wood's new inroads), is spending $8,000,000 to double its capacity, will hire 300 new workers. Corning Glass, the supplier of 90% of all the basic glass "bulbs" for color tubes, recently opened a third plant in Indiana to satisfy its customers' appeals for more tubes. Such producers of rare earth as Molybdenum Corp., American Potash & Chemical and Ronson, which supply the metallic elements europium and yttrium for the coatings that brighten color TV tubes, are rushing out orders at $1,000 per pound...