Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed of over 600 m.p.h.) and two F8U Crusaders (at plus 45,000 ft., an average speed of 650 m.p.h.) made the first carrier-to-carrier transcontinental flight in history, taking off from Bon Homme Richard at sea near San Diego, landing on Sara 60 miles off northern Florida. Said Ike to one pilot: "You almost got here before you left...
...accusation was too much for Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein, whose reply was even hotter. "Syrian forces encircled towns in northern Jordan at the moment of the plot against the government," answered the Jordanians, "lent assistance to Communist leaders" and "armed and largely paid criminals to assassinate certain personalities in Jordanian territory; 160 of these criminals, provided with Czech arms, have been arrested." Naturally, Jordan continued, it was bringing these charges not "to embitter relations between Arabs," but just to help "Syrian public opinion to guard against its deceitful hypocritical leaders...
...kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court, ordered that she attend only regular Presbyterian Church services, address no public meetings. As for her Catholic parents, they would have to accept their Protestant daughter in what MacDermott called his "experiment in toleration...
...experts worry a lot about "concentrating mechanisms" that may keep fallout materials from being distributed evenly over the earth's surface. The U.S. Weather Bureau insists that winds and rainfalls give some areas (including the northern U.S.) a great deal more than their share of the global fallout. Biological concentration is even more disturbing. Grazing animals skim the fallout from large areas of grass, and it concentrates in their flesh and milk. Sea animals do the equivalent. Biologists fear that many such concentrating mechanisms may exist unsuspected. This is one reason why the U.S. Public Health Service is starting...
...French, and named Premier after the Communist victory at Dienbienphu, Roman Catholic Diem (his family has been Catholic since the 17th century) took office just as the big powers at Geneva were about to halt the Indo-China war by splitting Viet Nam in two-with the industrialized northern half going to Communist Ho Chi Minh. Sixteen months later Nationalist Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with firm U.S. support and massive...