Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pigs & Digs. For Kukuruznik (corn man) Khrushchev, the big treat of the week was his trip to Iowa for an inspection of advanced farming practices, corn and beef production near Coon Rapids. His host: crag-faced, cranky Millionaire Roswell Garst, who has been to Russia twice to sell corn seed to the U.S.S.R. There amid the alien corn the Premier of the U.S.S.R., Garst, and the tenuous U.S.-Soviet relations nearly got trampled for good under a 300-man brigade of shouting, shoving newsmen (see PRESS...
...Sure." In Pittsburgh, the skies were uncommonly dark in the absence of the glares from strikebound steel hearths, but the city's lights were blazing as thousands of people choked the streets near Khrushchev's hotel, gave him the biggest, loudest welcome of the whole tour, even awarded him his first "key to the city...
...miles; it could carry 80 passengers or a load of Honest John missiles from Maine to Cairo in less than three hours. Its four-man crew sits in a "shirtsleeve environment," wears no helmets, chutes or pressure suits; in emergency, crewmen will be ejected into the subfreezing near-vacuum sealed in capsules that parachute down to gentle landings...
...this project will include other communities near Newton for the purpose of giving a broader test of the system in school situations of a different type...
...slackening of rivalry between the two universities on the athletic field. The former athletes simply felt that preservation of Oxford and Cambridge track was more important than preserving either Oxford or Cambridge alone. It is an attitude that Harvard and Yale alumni may be forced to contemplate in the near future...