Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with a pair of vacancies to fill on committees from which Cliff Case had departed: 1) District of Columbia, and 2) Post Office and Civil Service. Each is so lowly that no Senator bothered to bid for it. Result: the posts will be left open for McCarthy's successor from Wisconsin, whoever...
...first long-range missile interceptor in the U.S. arsenal, Boeing's Bomarc looks much like a jet fighter minus the pilot's cockpit. Its 47-ft. fuselage (longer than that of a Sabre jet) packs a pair of Marquardt ramjet engines and an Aerojet rocket booster (see above) that push the missile along at 1,500 m.p.h.. give it a range of 250 miles v. 50 miles for Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles. Once launched from a trailer-like "transporter-erector," an electronic guidance system flies the Bomarc, seeks out the enemy formation until it gets close enough...
...joint commission of officials of the two teams met to discuss the question of the elegibility of Burke and a sprinter named F.J. Quinlan. It seems that the London papers had declared them to be professionals, apparently because of some extramural running which the pair had done. The commission hastened to absolve both of them, and denounced the English papers which originated the controversy...
Sears, after winning a pair of easy matches in the first two rounds, had to default in the third to Williams' Dave Leonard. Mills won his first round encounter in the second...
With two away in the fourth, Matt Botsford got the Crimson's only hit, a long double into centerfield. A pair of walks loaded the bases, but the inning was over when Tom Bergantino's long fly to right field was caught