Word: rose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having...
...lights, emergency gear-and each other. Then Tuckfield opened a seacock, and the forward escape hatch began to fill with water. The men stayed at normal atmospheric pressure because excess air and their stale breath escaped through a vent line into the torpedo room. As the 68° water rose to their chins, Bond and Tuckfield shivered. With half a minute to go, the doctor gave the order and the chief opened a valve, letting air under 225 Ibs. pressure gush into the hatch. The outlet vent was closed. The air pressure zoomed, and at the equivalent...
...good way to hold down prizes was to restrict the points rolled up by any fixed winner. One indignant Twenty One veteran, greying Mrs. Rose Leibbrand, executive director of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, explained how it was done. Just before showtime Producer Freedman fed her the answers, and a warning: "Just remember not to bid over seven or eight -or else...
Died. Walter F. Munford, 59, president of U.S. Steel Corp., who worked (1919) at nights as a die reamer for a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Worcester, rose to be president of American Steel and Wire Division (1953), executive vice president (1958); of a stroke following a knife wound, said to be accidental, at his summer cottage on Cape Cod; in Hyannis, Mass...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The first of half a dozen Hope specials. Guests include the Crosby brothers, Natalie Wood, Dean Martin, and David Rose's orchestra...