Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite three confirmed visual sightings of the third stage of the Russian satellite-launching rocket, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, said last night that he would be unable to determine an orbit for the Communist moon. Whipple attributed the failure to compute the path to "highly unfavorable conditions" surrounding one of the sightings...
...University Health Services will convert the second floor lounge rooms of the Freshman Union into infirmary wards for the care of Asian Flu victims by late this afternoon, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth announced last night. Farnsworth also called for volunteers to fill "the urgent need for help in caring for students who are ill with acute respiratory infections...
...years before he died, Founder George H. Hartford began the odd A. & P. system by leaving each of his five children equal shares of the business in the form of the George H. Hartford Trust. As sole trustees, he appointed his sons George L., a reticent financial wizard who carefully tested A. & P. coffee every morning, and John A., a gregarious merchandising genius (TIME Cover, Nov. 13, 1950). John loved to boast to banker friends: "We had 100% stockholder attendance at our last annual meeting...
...financial wizard behind the growth of the A. & P. stores (for their future, see BUSINESS); of uremia; in Montclair, NJ. Inheriting the company in 1915 from their father, George Huntington Hartford, who had launched it with a small tea store on Manhattan's Vesey Street in 1859, George L. and brother John spread its power across the country, slashed prices by mass buying, produced their own products. "Mr. George," as he was known to company employees, anticipated the 1929 crash, signed store leases on a yearly basis only, and saw A. & P. prosper throughout the Depression, survive antimonopoly attacks...
Both Edward L. Katzenbach, director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, and Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government, agreed that America's satellite would not be put on a crash basis...