Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JERSEY DIVISION...
...There to greet him were the local priest, a handful of native sisters, and hordes of near-naked natives. The pilot: lean, sandy-haired Bishop Leo Arkfeld, 47, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Wewak Vicariate, a 20,100-sq.-mi. area (more than twice the size of New Jersey) in Australia's hot, humid New Guinea territory...
...critical committee session, Arizona's Stewart Udall and New Jersey's Frank Thompson Jr. rallied the ten Rayburn Democrats behind the relatively adequate committee bill. They teamed themselves with Republicans, sometimes with union-bloc Democrats to kill off seven substitute bills offered in fast succession. In the final vote, Republican Boss Halleck provided six Republicans to side with the Rayburn Democrats (with still another Republican safetyman ready to switch if necessary) and vote out the committee bill...
...Jersey farmhouse last week, Selden Rodman, 50, showed reporters his own swelling art collection, which ranges from Haitian primitives to an abstraction painted on the spot in 1 min. 40 sec. The collection crams every room of the house, is growing so fast that Rodman recently added a gallery wing where his favorite new "insiders" hang. Chief insiders: Rico Lebrun, Leonard Baskin, James Kearns. Lebrun is typically represented by an agonized nude entitled Crying Machine, Baskin by a recumbent sculpture suggestive of a fire victim, and Kearns by a powerful drawing of children watching an auto accident. The Kearns...
...Cooper Union's engineering campus in northern New Jersey, 29 high school seniors learned about semiconductors by building their own transistor radios. At the University of California at Los Angeles, 20 straight-A secondary-school students filled notebooks with the theory of computers as expounded by visiting Professor Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener himself. At Northwestern's engineering labs in Evanston, 96 boys and girls studied why quicksand becomes quick, and found out the most economical way of sifting and smelting a pile of copper...