Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight and Robert G. Alderman shared the same noble purpose in life, that of making Knight governor of California. For more than four years, they toured the state together in a breathless, exhausting effort to reach their goal. When Earl Warren moved to the Supreme Court last October, Lieutenant Governor Knight moved into the governor's office, and Executive Secretary Alderman, a onetime child actor, went right along with him. It became, in fact, a bit difficult to tell just who was occupying the governor's chair...
...Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of living life up to the hilt, has never numbered love of airplanes among his enthusiasms. When he left his home in Cuba (and his 25 cats) last year to revisit Africa after a lapse of two decades, he traveled by steamship. To reach a base camp on the rolling plains of British East Africa, the husky author and his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, bumped painfully through rough country by truck...
Last week General Motors showed off some new gadgets in its "kitchen of tomorrow." Electronically controlled cabinets slide down to easy reach with a wave of the hand, and cabinet doors pop open by light pressure on the front panel. A new appliance provides a choice of cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts...
Wilson also plans to enter Joel Cohen in the hurdles. Cohen, who got off to a good start in the K. of C. meet only to slam into the first hurdle, has a strong opportunity to reach the finals...
...heights didn't bother us," said one of the freshmen. "We're used to mountain climbing. We wore all the proper clothing and everything, so there was no danger. The cops finally stopped us before we could actually reach Memorial's peak, as we were resting in the colonnades just below the clock...