Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cable. Explorer also produced some interesting if unexpected results from the Russians: within four hours after Explorer was in orbit, Moscow telegraphed the International Geophysical Year headquarters in Brussels that data on its own satellites, carefully guarded for the past four months, would be airmailed immediately for all to read...
...balcony, the Egyptian Cabinet from another. And from a third beamed Egypt's President Nasser and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly. Then at 5:10 one afternoon last week, Syria's Premier Sabri el Assali stepped to the railing and from a green leather book read the proclamation signed by the two Presidents, declaring that Egypt and Syria had merged to form the "United Arab Republic...
Marijke, who will be eleven this month, has learned to swim. After many a tumble, she has mastered a bicycle, now rides it to school every day. Someone always goes with her but only to see her across the busy highway in front of the royal palace. She can read, does not require any special arrangements to keep up to her class. Soon Juliana's subjects were happily speculating about a miraculous restoration of Marijke's vision...
...Mortal danger: forbidden to set foot here," read the police signs around the Haanschoten family's modest little house in the Netherlands town of Putten (pop. 12,000), south of the Zuider Zee. To enforce the order, barbed wire was strung around three sides of the house and its yard, and police mounted 24-hour guard. A team of radiation experts worked with a scintillation counter over every square foot of the grounds. The counter registered 60 times the normal (background) radioactivity. Technicians, looking like spacemen in white rubber suits with protective masks and gloves, used long-handled shovels...
Last summer, when he and his wife were living mostly on Tootsie Rolls, Jimmie wangled a spot on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, won a recording contract. He has just finished his second LP album, is talking about his first movie-and is still unable to read a note of music. He learns most of his songs by memorizing what comes blaring over the car radio...