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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy has gone on developing its own IRBM to be launched from submarines or surface ships. Weighing only one-third as much as Thor or Jupiter, and burning easier-to-handle solid fuel instead of liquid, the Navy's Polaris promises to be a more efficient all-round IRBM than either of its rivals. If it were as far along in development as Thor and Jupiter, a case could be argued for making it the nation's production-line IRBM...
Starch & Gold. Thus began the carefully timed, almost agonizing round of greetings, luncheons, dinners, toasts, receptions, balls, meetings and tours for the royal couple. With scarcely enough time between official functions to change from one stylish dress to another (she never wore the same attire twice), Queen Elizabeth usually managed not to appear exhausted, foot-tired and hand-sore. And Washington, D.C., thrumming with true excitement, turned out with starched dickeys and flowing gowns to do her justice...
...Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines, and others for France, South Africa, Brazil and India. DEMAG-built furnaces now turn out some 37 million tons of steel a year round the world−13% of the world's product. Krupp's technicians are running up 41 waterside cranes in Pakistani ports, a dozen road-bridges in Colombia, a port coal-loading device for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Newport News...
Conway is a serious student of British and Canadian history, and has a well-conceived vision of the Common-wealth. He is often commended for his "understanding of the transition from Empire to Commonwealth." His Ph.D. thesis was a study of "The Round Table," an important group of publicists and politicians which emerged from Oxford in the late 1890's and joined in an association in London. They were influential in settling the Boer War and in writing the new South African constitution...
Born. To Robert Bruce Mathias, 26, two-time Olympic decathlon winner ('48, '52), all-round athlete turned Hollywood actor, and Melba Wiser Mathias, 26, his former classmate: a second daughter, second child; in Los Angeles. Name: Megan Louise. Weight...