Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...49th star to the U.S. flag. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, getting word that diehard opposition, mostly Southern, had gasped its last, rushed from a steak dinner to Capitol Hill. Alaska's Governor Mike Stepovich excused himself to his dinner hosts, sped to the Capitol. The Senate roll was called, and the U.S. Senate last week voted 64 (31 Democrats, 33 Republicans) to 20 to admit Alaska to the Union. Barring only the foregone conclusions of a presidential signature and an Alaska referendum next month, the U.S. had its first new state since Arizona entered...
...usual, the army did not follow up its advantage. At the height of the Tripoli barrage, Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt's Druse mountaineers launched a drive that took three villages overlooking Beirut itself. There, too, the army heaved into action with just enough heavy weapons to roll the rebels back to their old lines, prompting Chamoun to observe that the military situation was "leaning toward the government...
...help promote an improbable trend back to "good music," station WJQS in Jackson, Miss, put some 5,000 rock 'n' roll records in a coffin, hauled the gone stuff to a local shopping center for a symbolic funeral service. Unfortunately, the disks were not buried but passed out gratis to a horde of screaming teenagers...
...local is usually a completely independent station, but roughly one station out of four is affiliated (with increasing reluctance) with one or more networks. With some honorable exceptions, the locals' standard fare consists of the so-called "Top 40" tunes (mostly rock 'n' roll), news-headline teasers, whooped-up contests and giveaways, voices of home-town deejays that every housewife learns to know and like during her lonely hours spent over dishes, ironing board and stove. More and more, local affiliates are dropping network shows; even the familiar 27-year-old broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera...
When Muller made this discovery, he may have heard a roll of distant thunder, but he could not have known what it meant. In the year 1926, long before Hiroshima, no man-made radioactivity was at large on earth outside the range of X-ray machines and radium capsules, and none was expected. No one suspected that in less than 20 years the mutation-producing effects of radiation would be a worldwide worry...