Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHARLES J. COLLINS Detroit...
Working under Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, commander of Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt...
...nine months of looking for a successor to retiring School Superintendent William Jansen, 70, the New York City Board of Education seemed to favor one man. Dr. John J. Theobald, 53, has no degree in education and never taught in a public school, but as the energetic president of municipal Queens College and more recently as New York's deputy mayor, he has come to know as much about his city and its huge (1,000,000 pupils) school system as any man. Last week, after looking over 24 candidates from all over the U.S., the board announced that...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan has suggested that a board of Cambridge school officials and College professors be formed to consider the possibilities of improvements in the science and mathematics departments of the city's high schools...
University Police Chief Matthew J. Toohy predicted that the police will continue to take action against parking violators for the remainder of the school year. Toohy also predicted that police towing of cars will increase. He suggested that students "leave them at home for the winter...