Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfect Match. In Christchurch, New Zealand, Rugby Fan Ted Henderson ran an ad in the Star: "Urgent-refined gentleman wants to meet widow with two tickets, third test, Christchurch, August 29, view to matrimony. Kindly send photographs of tickets...
...create a pool of foreign-aid capital clearly identified with free nations. He has approved Anderson's plan for a new International Development Association (IDA), capitalized with a joint $1 billion, which will get its first public airing week after next, when the governors of the World Bank meet in Washington...
...meet in Salt Lake City, rotund (5 ft. 5 in., 190 Ibs.), taciturn Arnold Riegger, 39, a sometime airplane mechanic of Longview, Wash., who has broken nearly every trapshooting record in the last eleven years, blasted 300 clay pigeons out of the sky, running his streak to 1,307 for a new world record...
...solution to the problem of long-range flight. During interplanetary voyages, a spaceship will pass through lashing streams of plasmas shot out of the sun, and its designers had better understand them well in advance. If a spaceship tries to land on a planet, it will meet another plasma problem. A group of Harvard scientists plans to simulate the atmospheres of Mars and Venus to see what sort of plasma will be created by a body entering them at spaceship speed...
...jeopardy is the change that missiles have brought to the industry. They not only promise the end of manned military bombers and fighters, but have brought such other lightning changes that huge projects, calling for hundreds of millions of dollars, can be made obsolete almost overnight. To meet the challenge, the plane-and enginemakers are well aware that their industry must undergo the fastest and most radical change in its history...