Word: nia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIVE years ahead of schedule, Quesada has set up radar-controlled jet expressways from New York to Califor nia and from Florida to Gander by persuading the Air Force to let FAA men use its radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...
Still ahead, with Brown optimistic, are two major measures. One would raise $200 million in additional tax revenue (including $60 million more in income taxes) to help balance a $2 billion biennial budget. The other, equally basic: a development program calling for $1.13 billion initially to ease southern Califor nia's water shortage by piping in northern California water...
...such classics as Shakespeare and the Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon nka sikjane-nia tso'') in the Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (Folkways...
...inclusion of identical planks in the platforms of both parties." Signers of the appeal came from oppo site political poles. Among them: Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and New Jersey's Republican Senator H. Alex ander Smith, Minnesota's Republican Rep resentative Walter Judd and Pennsylva nia's Democratic Representative Francis Walter. One reason why the Committee of One Million may achieve its goal: when the U.S. Senate last week adopted, 86 to 0, a House-approved (391-0) resolution against the admittance of Red China to the U.N., it was only reflecting over whelming...
...houses are suitable, many buyers are going back to traditional designs. The hottest sellers in Dallas this year are Georgian. Colonial and even houses with French Provincial trims, but all are modified to give the kind of light, cool living that buyers demand in the Texas climate. In Califor nia, the swing to traditional houses has brought back "Cinderella" and "Storybook" houses with leaded-glass windows and dormers...