Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with post-Sputnik hindsight, Director I. M. Levitt of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium called that 1955 decision an "astonishing piece of stupidity." Levitt's argument, echoed by Army missilemen: the Army's Jupiter intermediate ballistic missile, well along in 1955, could and should have been adapted for launching a satellite (a modified Jupiter has reached an altitude of 650 miles, higher than Sputnik's orbit). But when it was made, the National Security Council decision seemed sensible enough. The U.S. had committed itself to pass on to the rest of the world, including Russia...
...minded Bruce Palmer, president of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. announced that "thanks to the new climate." his corporation was not only staying in the city, but would also build a $10 million home office in downtown Newark. Forty citizens from the rundown Clinton Hill area hustled off to Philadelphia to study rehabilitation projects; another group went to Pittsburgh to view the Golden Triangle. The Rutgers University law faculty pitched in to help on legal problems, and Newark businessmen volunteered staff services...
Central High, Philadelphia...
...post was announced recently to alumni workers for the Program for Harvard College in Philadelphia, New York, Rochester, Detroit and Chicago...
West Side Story hit Broadway after smash tryouts in Washington and Philadelphia, and boasting an advance sale estimated at $700,000. First-nighters-elegant, effusive, conscious of their roles and determined to be delighted-packed the big Winter Garden Theater and turned the opening into the gaudiest night of the new theatrical season...