Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above sea level. Last week the best look yet beneath the Pole came from the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., seismologist, burly professor of geophysics at Boston College and onetime (1923) guard on a good B.C. football team. Jesuit Linehan's findings: the Pole is underlain by rock above sea level...
...Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt is covered by a surface layer of snow...
...Christmastide greeting to Little Rock merchants, an extremist group warned last week of "a massive crusade" against stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette (circ. 99,573). Said their mimeographed ultimatum...
...Gazette has played a leading role in breaking dow?n our segregation laws, and at last bringing upon the people of Little Rock the most insufferable outrage ever visited upon an American city. There is a rising tide of race feeling-in fact, a revolution is beginning in the South. Your store and all stores that advertise in the Arkansas Gazette will be placed on one side or the other. This is your notice to make your own choice...
...days of the microgroove decade the 45-r.p.m. disk was the major vehicle for pop singers, all of the more imaginative pop and show tunes are now recorded on LPs. The 45, with only three minutes to sell its wares, relies on the babbling lyrics and thudding beat of rock 'n' roll and kindred styles. But the LP provides time for the leisurely display of stylists and songs, has pushed the outer age limit of pop record buyers into the 405, and now accounts for two-thirds of cash pop sales...