Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's largest synchrocyclotron (particles accelerator). In 1957 Russia graduated three times as many engineers as the U.S. and published five times as many book titles. In the judgment of their U.S. peers, Russian scientists in 1957 excelled in such fields as astrophysics, very high energy studies, cosmic-ray research and certain branches of higher mathematics, and ran close to U.S. performance in oceanography, cryogenics and geology. The Russians moved up in air defense, long-range bomber capacity, and in reorganizing their traditionally massive ground forces into small, fast-moving units capable of using tactical atomic weapons. Says General Maxwell...
...Died. Ray Sprigle, 71, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1938) for revealing that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a Ku Klux Klansman; of injuries suffered in an auto crash; in Pittsburgh...
...Naturopath Lovgren took her blood pressure, told her that her heartbeat was too fast, promptly administered a "chiropractic adjustment" with a vibrator. "But how will that stop the pains in my throat?" she asked. Lovgren gave her pills, prescribed a diet, then fitted what he called an electrical heat-ray machine around her neck. It began to burn on the left side. He said that was where the infection was, but he treated the burn with Unguentine and charged only...
...Chicago White Sox swapped Outfielder Larry Doby, Pitcher Jack Harshman and a player still to be named for the Baltimore Orioles' Infielder Billy Goodman, Pitcher Ray Moore and Outfielder Tito Francona. Then the Sox sent Outfielder Minnie Minoso and Third Baseman Fred Hatfield to Cleveland in return for aging Pitcher Early Wynn and Utility Man Al Smith. In two brisk moves they shuffled off 182 RBIs (Doby, 79; Minoso, 103) and picked up only 87 (Smith, 49; Francona, 38), but they did get a good pitcher in the bargain...
Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...