Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October 1954, called for earth-satellite launchings during IGY (July 1957 to December 1958). At the urging of the U.S.'s IGY committee, the Eisenhower Administration decided, in mid-1955, to undertake a satellite program as part of the nation's IGY effort. The basic top-level decision then to be made was how to run the project. The twofold decision that emerged from the National Security Council: 1) keep the satellite project separate from military ballistic-missile research, and 2) put the Navy in charge. With that, Project Orbiter died and Project Vanguard was born...
Having worked the classroom for all its demagogic worth. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus last week descended to what the Washington Post and Times Herald called "the lavatory level." U.S. paratroopers, he cried, were escorting Negro students into the girls' locker room at Little Rock's Central High School-and were lingering around to leer at ungarbed young Southern white womanhood. The facts of the matter proved Orval Faubus less a master of morals than mendacity...
...little town of Calipatria (pop. 2,500), a cluster of small stores and business buildings surrounded by the truck farms of California's broiling Imperial Valley, has always had one claim to fame: it is located 184 ft. below sea level, and fondly calls itself "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere." Last week Calipatria got a raise in stature, if not elevation, as it demonstrated how far the Imperial Valley has come since the old days-and Pearl Harbor days-when inflamed feelings against Japanese settlers brought persecution and bloodshed...
...memorial to Helen Momita at the Los Angeles Buddhist temple. When he was consulted about it, Harry asked that the money be used instead to help fulfill a long-standing dream of Calipatrians : to build a 184-ft. flagpole so that the American flag could fly at sea level above "the lowest-down city in the Western Hemisphere...
...General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Diefenbaker, and a curtsy from Mrs. Diefenbaker. A Plexiglas-topped convertible whisked the royal couple to Rideau Hall, official residence of Governors General, where that night Elizabeth and Philip received 600 newsmen and their wives. To one of his visitors Philip gave a level look and demanded: "Who are you?" "I'm the man whose flashlight bulb exploded near you," gulped the photographer. "I remember you," Philip laughed...