Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the 526th AAA Missile Battalion installed batteries of Nike-Ajax missiles in northern New Jersey three years ago, the Army carefully explained that the 21-ft. TNT and shrapnel projectiles were virtually accident-proof. A missile battery, said the Army, was no more dangerous a neighbor than a gas station. Last week the gas-station blew up. Installing a trigger modification on one of the 526th B Battery Nikes near Leonardo, N.J., ordnance technicians accidentally detonated the missile. Explosion and flame touched off seven more Nikes squatting on adjacent pads, blew or burned ten men to death, showered...
Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...
Farther west, roads were making some money, but generally much less than last year. The Northern Pacific reported that per-share earnings in the first four months slid to 34? (v. 82? a year ago), but President Robert S. Macfarlane. almost alone among U.S. railroaders, predicted that a pickup in grain shipments and a tighter control of expenses would lift May earnings close to the 1957 level and bring a "relatively good June...
...Austrians who ruled northern Italy in the mid-19th century, the word Verdi was a nightmare. It haunted them from the very walls in huge letters, like the V sign of World War II. The great risorgimento that threw out the alien rulers and made the Italians a nation used Verdi as its symbolic pun-a tribute to Italy's greatest composer and a proud abbreviation for the name and title of its King, "Vittorio Emanuele, Re è d'Italia...
...never did get to high school, began making news in his first reporting job on a provincial newspaper-he strapped on skis and ran an elk to exhaustion. Since 1953 he has averaged a story a week for Apu, often has his exploits reported in the Scandinavian and northern German press. One future assignment: hunting a bear with a spear (to prove that modern Finns are as strong as their ancestors...