Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years 1952-55, one charging that he knowingly concealed the receipt of "cash, currency or kickbacks" from Waldorf suppliers. Sunk in a continental sulk, Philippe issued a printed declaration of probity ("At the trial I confidently expect to establish my innocence "), then left for his $500,000 country estate near Peekskill-there to ponder, perhaps, the outrageous ways of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which, in his case at least, wants something better than...
Hard by a strip of wild, windblown Pacific shore near Lompoc, Calif., construction workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week were digging a 15-story hole in the ground. Within weeks, the deep cylindrical pit will be paved with concrete so thick that months must pass before it cures. Then the U.S. Air Force will slide a 90-ft., 117-ton monster into its perpendicular den and seal it with heavy concrete doors against the megaton shocks of man-made thermonuclear quakes. The monster is the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapon in Air Force history...
...testing. A test launch, using another Titan, has been tentatively scheduled for late next month. The Air Force has firmly programed four Titan squadrons of nine birds each, will start building the first of the four new Titan hard bases soon after the first of the year. Base construction near existing Air Force installations: $50 million per squadron. Titan development costs : $1 billion to date. Target date for an operational Titan...
...suggest that France would never consent to independence for Algeria, and Constantine's European settlers were cheered. But not for long. In fact, within a few minutes, the leaders of Constantine's right-wing Committee of Public Safety-seated not on the rostrum but in a stand near by-stomped out angrily. They might have helped bring De Gaulle to power, but the triumphant Premier no longer needed them...
...stool regulars at a hotel near the railroad tracks occasionally like to tell a story about the Lehigh professor who set off to shop in North Bethlehem on a windy day, started across the bridge, turned around to light his pipe, and walked back to the campus...