Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast-rising Cook Electric, the Nepal contract is the kind of offbeat challenge on which it thrives. Building its growth on tough jobs that discourage competitors, Cook has pushed its sales from $350,000 in 1939 to $30.1 million in fiscal 1958. Along with sales, it has also built one of the top scientific organizations in the U.S. Says Cook's energetic President Walter C. Hasselhorn: "I don't get excited over assets. I get excited over men, abilities and talent...
...stands, The Captive and the Free is not one of ary's best novels. But had the author been given the strength to do more work on it, the book might have been his most significant, for Cary knew that an offbeat life can sometimes distill significant truths. And in comparing the validity of conflicting approaches to God, Author Cary, before death ended his search, was perhaps looking for the most profound truth...
...Europe in 1954, she made it as far as New York before she ran short of cash. She wound up with a walk-on part in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon, and one day while on tour she wandered into Seattle's Colony, an offbeat supper club. She talked Owner Norm Bobrow into letting her try a few numbers with the band, brought down the house. Three years later, Pat was still at the Colony. "How long will she stay?" Bobrow's friends kept asking him. He always gave them the same answer: "Until...
...there is antimatter in the universe, says Dr. Schein, there may be anti-gravity too. Antiprotons should rise upward, instead of falling toward the earth. The great balloon experiment may find evidence of such offbeat behavior. The tracks may even show that the elementary particles (protons, neutrons, etc.) are not really elementary. Each may contain a complicated structure whose behavior turns out more strange than anything yet imagined...
...They Dream. No sooner had the victory vote been wrapped up than the D.F.L. started work for 1960-when Humphrey himself is up for re-election and is also an offbeat Democratic presidential possibility. There were lessons to be learned from the D.F.L.'s 1958 failures -failure to hold freewheeling Coya Knutson's Ninth District and need to develop a vigorous young replacement who would measure up to the D.F.L.'s home-loving and service-to-constituents standards. The D.F.L. was quick to recognize a new problem: in 1958 the long-moribund state G.O.P. developed some...