Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon represents the classical concept of the "high ground." Thus the lunar military potential takes on a new urgency in terms of observation and missilery. Says Air Force Brigadier General Homer Boushey: with moderate-sized telescopes, lunar observers could daily "monitor the positions of all ships at sea, all major surface construction, all above-ground missile sites" on the earth. The growing sciences of optics and radar observation already promise the tools to assure continuous observation of the turning earth and the pinpointing of objects as small as 100 ft. across...
...agreed to handle all of the Democratic Party's advertising and pressagentry during the 1960 national campaign. The California firm's acceptance marked the end of a long search by National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler, who had already been turned down by major ad agencies in Manhattan -because, so he said, they were fearful of offending big Republican customers...
...last major change in dormitory cleaning procedure was the abolition of maid service...
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 18--Bob Elliott, 42, manager of Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League and former major league outfield-third baseman, was signed today to manage the Kansas City Athletics...
...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...