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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opulence & Elements. Alaska has already made a running start with the resource of people. Anchorage, near the Kenai Peninsula, vibrates with a population of 35,000, has an opulent subdivision of $35,000 homes built by enterprising Wally Hickel. Two tall apartment houses peak the skyline, a glassed-in, year-round swimming pool ripples within sight of icy mountains, and fashionably dressed men and women frequent the Westward Hotel's spiffy cocktail lounge. Juneau still straggles with dingy, narrow streets from the roaring gold-rush times. Local phone service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road...
...Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, he was a stricken man. A blood clot forced the amputation of his right arm (TIME, May 5). On the mend, he was felled by a stroke, later complicated by heart disease. Last week at 70. and at the peak of a brilliant career, Samuel Cardinal Stritch died...
...approached the peak of our climb, the relentless 4-g pressure was lifted and suddenly we slipped through a man-made loophole in the law of gravity: we weighed nothing...
...season. Few Harvard fans will ever remember without a shudder the spectre of Dick Winterbauer cocking his arm in the direction of the Crimson goal line for one of his numerous touchdown passes. It must be remembered, however, that the game found the varsity at its lowest physical peak of the year as most of the starting line along with half the backfield was out with various injuries. The Crimson had expended most of its resources in its near upset of a vastly superior Princeton eleven and had nothing left for the Yale game. The varsity's new coach John...
...Seminaries Within. The facilities offered by such distinguished company have attracted students from all over the U.S. and the world. The present student body of 669-more than doubled since the prewar peak-numbers 33 seminarians from the Far East, two from the Middle East, 25 from Europe, five from Africa, seven from Australia and New Zealand, 23 from Canada and five from the Caribbean area...