Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...
...celebrates its 50th anniversary with Jubilee of American Music, and Standard Oil will hire Cyril Ritchard, Jimmy Durante, June Allyson, Bert Lahr, Jane Powell, Kay Thompson, Marge and Gower Champion for its 75th birthday party. NBC will also spotlight the National Tennis singles, the World Series (in color), the Rose Bowl game, and Queen Elizabeth's U.S. visit. Such old perennials as Perry, Dinah, Groucho and Tennessee Ernie will also return to duty-refreshed, relaxed and pickin' peas...
...When he rose out of the iron mine at 1,200 ft. per minute, Dr. Simons was as safe as science could make him. His heart beat and respiration rate were radioed directly from his chest to a monitoring physiologist. Film strapped to his forearms and chest would pick up the tracks of any cosmic particles that might crash through to his skin. A C-47 with a paramedic aboard started to track his flight. Down below, radar blips traced his path and a meteorologist turned a weather eye on the heavens. To help science, Simons carried along a good...
...either a high-school or college education or on-the-job training. Today, added the VA, veterans account for 25% of the male student population. ¶ For the first time since 1910, said the U.S. Office of Education, the percentage of high-school students taking science and mathematics rose last fall. Biology (tenth grade) was up from 72.6% in 1954 to 75%, chemistry (eleventh grade) from 31.9% to 34.6%, and physics (twelfth grade) from 23.5% to 24.3%. But just in case anyone felt too encouraged, the OE added another figure: while the percentage of students taking algebra rose from...
...investment in the domestic steel industry. American companies directly invested $2.8 billion in their foreign subsidiaries, a full $1.1 billion more than in 1955. Half of it went into the oil business, which also accounts for the biggest part of total U.S. investment abroad ($7.2 billion), but manufacturing investments rose by $739 million, while mining and public utilities also made big advances...