Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When baseball's Giants moved from New York to San Francisco, Negro Batting Star Willie Mays decided that he might as well move too. He and his attractive wife Marghuerite shopped around, finally decided on a modern threebedroom house on a hillside in San Francisco's well-pruned Sherwood Forest district. After discussing the price-$37,500 -dismayed Willie learned that his neighbors-to-be, all white, did not want the Mayses. Their presence would "depress property values." Last week, after San Francisco's Council for Civic Unity and Mayor George Christopher denounced the Sherwood Foresters...
...recovery problem" the Russians did not mean the problem of bringing the warhead of a long-range missile down through the atmosphere. To recover a living animal that has been riding in a satellite is in some ways harder, in other ways easier. A satellite has to move faster than an ICBM and therefore must dissipate more energy before it can enter dense low-altitude air without burning up. But it has the advantage of skimming the thin top of the atmosphere instead of plunging into it at a steep angle. Theoretically, it can be made to approach the atmosphere...
...move, said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...
...over his finger at his command. Then he pulled out two of the flea's six legs. "Jump," he ordered, and the flea still jumped. Two more legs came off. Again the flea jumped. Finally, he pulled off the last two. "Jump," he commanded. The flea did not move. With that, the research director wrote his report: "When a flea loses all six legs, it becomes deaf...
...James) Russell Duncan, 40, vice president of Chicago's Consolidated Foundries & Mfg. Corp. since 1954, was elected president of Minneapolis-Moline, farm implement company founded in 1929, succeeding Henry S. Reddig, 50, who resigned. The move followed a shareholder revolt in which Raider J. Patrick Lannan (TIME, July 25, 1955) and two associates won places on Minneapolis-Moline's board of directors two months ago. Lannan's H. M. Byllesby & Co. bought into Minneapolis-Moline two years ago with Henry Reddig and his brother Edward when the company's prospects looked good and its stock...