Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muskeg 150 miles northwest of Edmonton, Alta., it roared in with a fabulous open-flow potential of 1.5 billion cu. ft. per day. Its closest competitor is a 500 million-cu.-ft. well owned by Phillips Petroleum Co. in Pecos County, Texas, and the nearest thing Canada has seen is a dwarf by comparison: a British American well with a flow of 280 million...
...firms, and are constantly surrounded by ulcerescent chaperons, without whom they may not speak to any man, "including male members of their own families." Explained Hostess Chairman Mrs. John M. Alton: "Why, we had one father who was the handsomest thing you ever saw. If his" daughter had been seen with him alone, people might have thought anything...
...history of gall, some 2,000 so-called students at the National University of Mexico posted a mark that is likely to stand for years. In as terrifying a week as Mexico City has seen in years, they burned or destroyed 10 buses, worth $120,000. immobilized the national capital and its 4,500,000 inhabitants, lobbed Molotov cocktails as casually as softballs, and defied Mexico's federal government. What's more, they got away with...
...Russian newsman at the U.N. put an effective end to five, years of speculation. What-a curious West had wondered-happened to Vasily Dzhugashvili Stalin, fighter pilot, once (in his mid-20s the youngest general in Russia's armed forces, younger son of Joseph Stalin? He was last seen publicly at his father's funeral in 1953, and a report later that year said he was in a "correction camp" in the Russian Arctic. Other hearsays turned up as time passed: Vasily Stalin was dead in a central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive in a Moscow prison, mentally...
...mystery goes on display this week in Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It is Peter Paul Rubens' 10|½-in.-by-15-in. oil sketch for his Pallas and Arachne. The finished painting is long lost, and presumably destroyed-but still to be seen in a copy made three centuries ago by the Spanish painter Velàsquez...