Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience now includes thousands of high school students, housewives, plumbers, executives, servicemen and even 500 San Quentin cons who happily find that physics does not a prison make. One 14-year-old boy on a Colorado ranch races forth before the show to catch it on his school TV set miles away. When the show conflicted with their devotions, the sisters in a Midwest convent switched their Mass time by special permission of the Mother House...
Bibles & Battles. When young, westward-looking Governor Kiyotaka Kuroda summoned Clark to set up an agricultural college at Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido-Japanese students returning from Massachusetts had recommended Clark reverently-the island was only a few steps from wilderness. To Congregationalist Clark, the wilderness was a God-sent challenge; he kissed his wife and eleven children goodbye and set out-with 50 Bibles in his luggage...
...work pace was set by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who called for final passage of an omnibus housing bill before Congress starts its Lincoln's Birthday recess on Feb. 9. Senate Housing Chairman John Sparkman rushed through hearings on his bill almost before witnesses had time to take off their hats. Sparkman's bill was due on the floor of the Senate this week, with more than enough votes lined up for immediate passage...
...boost comes from a new approach to cargo by both the lines and businessmen. Instead of relying on emergency shipments of badly needed goods and the small oddball traffic in perishable orchids, baby whales and race horses, the airmen aimed a new pitch at solid production-line items, set out to show businessmen how to save money by distributing...
...manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy set...