Word: mercedes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To celebrate his first trip to the U.S., Huang insisted on being driven directly from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park. Once there, he leaped from the car and began a watercolor on the spot (see cut). How does the scenery compare with his beloved Kialing River? Replies Huang: "The...
¶ Appointment of the week: J. (for John) Paul Leonard, 55, to succeed the late Stephen Penrose Jr. as president of the American University of Beirut. A Ph.D. from Columbia University and onetime professor of education at Stanford, Leonard became president of San Francisco State College in 1945. moved his...
This was a top piece of celestial navigation; on the test, the City of Merced scored 117 out of a possible 125 points.
The third and last bomb drop was on the northwest corner of an Earle M. Jorgensen steel company building in Los Angeles. This was an important run for Major Holguin. About six miles from the target was the Cheli Air Depot, named for Ralph Cheli, an Air Corps Medal-of...
The mission was over. The City of Merced was met at March Field by an officer with a case of beer. Out of a possible total of 1,000 points, in three flights totaling 9,000 miles, the City of Merced team had scored 853-enough to become "the world...