Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William M. Rountree, 42, veteran (17 years) Foreign Service officer and three-year Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to be Ambassador to Pakistan...
This royal tour is also billed as an effort to get to out-of-the-way places-so the Queen was soon off to Schefferville, an iron-mining village near the Labrador border. She greeted chiefs of the Montagnais-Naskapi Indians, gave one of them a reassuring smile when he lost his balance while curtseying in his blue, fur-trimmed parka. At the U.S.'s Harmon airbase at Stephenville, Nfld., a Ford convertible assigned for royal use failed to start. Prince Philip cracked: "Too bad we don't have a British car"-whereupon the royal couple transferred...
...helped develop a program on religion and contemporary culture at the University of California and formed some definite ideas about his ministry. "I began to ask why it was that the most exciting people in student life and the most dynamic I met elsewhere wouldn't come near the church. Somehow they felt that the church smothered them and judged them too quickly. There are two aspects of the ministry-the ministry of proclamation and of response. The ministry of response is listening, knowing a person, receiving his gift...
...blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to build the park. At present, Wood is supervising construction of five others (including Denver's Magic Mountain, Great Southwest Park near Dallas, Montana Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north of Boston in Wakefield, Mass. Most spectacular feature: a 19th century New England fishing village, from which the kiddies can slosh...
Teak was the name of the first of two high-altitude H-bombs set off by the U.S. over the Pacific near Johnston Island last summer. Lifted 40 miles above the earth by a Redstone missile, the bomb was detonated a few minutes before midnight. Out of the blackness came a fireball that grew to eleven miles in width in less than half a second and could be seen in Hawaii, 700 miles to the northeast. Its multicolored aurora was observed 3,000 miles away in Samoa. Some nights later a similar device, called Orange, was fired from 20 miles...