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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 3--A roaring Juno II rocket was launched early this morning carrying Pioneer IV, a potential sun planet. The goal of Army scientists was to hurl a 13-pound gold-plated satellite past the moon, 221,000 miles away, in 34 hours and ultimately into a solar orbit a half million miles from earth...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, has just published a legal text, The Problems of Delinquency, which contains articles of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, social work, and anthropology, as well as legal cases...
...played by Francoise Arnoul, has a mysterious fixation for a clubby, killer type named Sforzi (you can tell he's a bad guy because he wears a vest). Sforzi has deep seated homocidal designs on an evil father image, Baron von Bergen, who has made his fortunate counterfeiting British pound notes during the war and turned Sforzi from a nice, simple peasant lad into a well-groomed unhappy killer. Into the midst of this sick triangle comes big suave Paris photographer Michel LaFaurie, played by Christian Marquand, who immediately falls in love with Sophie and gets caught...
Captain Joe Noble stretched his season's record to 9-1 with a 5-1 decision victory over Brown's John Moyle in the 157-pound class. Crimson heavyweight Ted Robbins, however, had his winning streak stopped at six, as he lost 11-8 to Art Giorgini...
...felt. Syrian foreign exchange holdings had shrunk in half in the merger's first year. Nasser's determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country. To make the new republic's first anniversary memorable, Nasser planned...