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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Michel Detroyat, 50, flamboyant French stunt pilot who in 1932 set a record for flying upside down (26 min. 2.4 sec.), later (1936) became the first foreigner to win the UfS.'s Thompson Trophy race (at a record 264.261 m.p.h.); of a cerebral embolism; in Paris...
...number that saw the 1952 shows. This meant that 88% of all TV homes saw one or more sessions of each convention over one of the three chains. Daily audiences ranged from 23 million to 27 million homes. ¶TV homes watching the Democrats averaged 9 hrs. 39 min. each. For Republicans: 7 hrs. 22 min. The discrepancy is due primarily to the fact that the Democrats used afternoon and evening time for five days; the G.O.P. wound things up in four evenings, only one afternoon. ¶Peak viewing (17.8 million homes) for the Democrats came during the balloting...
Radio also boasted a sizable turnout: ¶Twenty-one million U.S. families listened to some part of the Democratic Convention. Homes tuning in averaged 6 hrs. 1 min. each. During the shorter G.O.P. week the total audience hit 15.6 million homes, for a listening average of 3 hrs. 23 min. per home. ¶Daily audiences ranged from 6.5 million to 13 million homes, averaging 10.2 million homes a day for the Democrats, 8.2 million for the Republicans. ¶Peak radio audiences (4 million) were clocked in during the early afternoon on the opening day of each convention...
...meter radio waves from Venus. Every day he measured a rough peak of radio activity, and the peaks came earlier each day by a little less than two hours. After diagraming the peaks, Dr. Kraus concluded that Venus revolves on its axis in about 22 hrs. 17 min...
...last year a squat, dynamic Bengali named Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy retired to his big, rambling house on Karachi's fashionable Clifton Road to await the call that would make him Prime Min ister of Pakistan. The call did not come. In a last minute switch, Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza passed over Suhrawardy in favor of a more malleable candidate, Financial Expert Mohamad Ali. "Mirza is an unscrupulous schemer," cried the outraged Suhrawardy. Vowed Mirza in return: "Suhrawardy will get the premiership only over my dead body...