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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembled Seniors and their guests will also hear the Class Poem of Erich W. Segal. The Class Ode, written by L. John Felstiner will be sung by Chorister Frederick Brozer...
Calculating that the A. & P. saved $2,000,000 to $12 million a year during each year the contract was in effect over what its competitors were paying their help, Committee Chairman John L. McClellan last week called Schimmat's conduct "reprehensible."' Other committee Democrats, restive over being cast in the role of labor critics in McClellan investigations, vehemently agreed. Said North Carolina's Democrat Sam J. Ervin Jr.: "Those clerks were sold down the river...
...orbit 14 to 16 hours, long enough to make eight circuits around the earth. When they did start talking, they gave a good deal of information. Sputnik III carries no man, dog or other experimental organism, and it is not designed to return to earth. Writing in Pravda, Academician L. I. Sedov said that it could have carried a man, but "such an experiment would be premature." Professor Evgeny Fedorov, an official spokesman, said that Sputnik III had been launched with "customary chemical fuels," not with atomic energy, and the launching technique was about the same as with the earlier...
...UNDERGROUND CITY (755 pp.) -H. L. Humes -Random House...
...L. (for Harold Louis) Humes Jr., 32, a founder of the little magazine Paris Review, has written a huge (755 pages) book which is the most indefatigable first novel of the year. Humes writes in a documentary, now-it-can-be-told style of a man who believes that he has the Government Printing Office at his tax-free disposal. Yet those who are prepared to do their own, rather than the novelist's job of winnowing a peck of wisdom out of a stockpile of fact will not be ill rewarded...