Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came fully awake to the fact that its normal best in the cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first...
...youngsters poring over books and maps or making models of the solar system, even the McCormicks have been surprised by the eagerness they see. One little boy of five, who had attended a regular kindergarten, entered Adastra suffering from nightmares, constant stomach upsets and a nasty rash. Now, no longer bored, he reads, is rapidly learning Spanish, and his symptoms are gone. A girl of four kept vanishing from Adastra's kindergarten to join the first grade, would be brought back screaming: "They have books in kindergarten but just with pictures. They don't do numbers. I want...
...four years of minor-league ball is now eligible for drafting (i.e., hiring) by any major-league club. Under the old rule, major-league owners of farm clubs could leave employees in the minors subject only to their own call. Promising rookies hired as "bonus babies" will no longer have to ride major-league benches but can be sent to the minors for seasoning...
Such dire reports are regarded skeptically by rail users. Though no longer robber-barons, the railroaders often take a public-be-damned attitude in trying to cut passenger traffic. The New York Public Service Commission reported last week that the New York Central had deliberately left trains out of a timetable, presumably to discourage patronage. And though passenger traffic losses are accurately recorded under the bookkeeping system approved by the ICC, many experts quarrel with the system. They argue that losses are actually far less, simply because the passenger business, only 7% of overall rail business, carries...
...second match, he met Charley Hanks. They both weighed about 135 pounds, but Hanks was two or three inches taller and had a much longer reach. Roosevelt was also nearsighted, which made it hard for him to see and parry Hanks' blows. "When time was called after the last round," one spectator recalls, "his face was dashed with blood and he was much winded; but his spirit did not flag, and if there had been another round, he would have gone into it with undiminished determination...