Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provocation was the interruption of five of twelve U.S.-owned transatlantic cables-four owned by Western Union, the fifth by American Telephone and Telegraph Co.-in the short period of five days. All the interruptions, or cuts, occurred in about the same spot, in the icy seas some 195 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland. Around that spot, Navy patrols reported, only one ship was operating: the Russian fishing trawler Novorossisk...
...Firing squads shot 46 Batista "war criminals," bringing to 362 the eight-week unofficial total-38 short of the 400 maximum once set by Fidel Castro...
...open a London office for the Sun, Columnist Scott summed up his feelings in one short sentence: "It was a ball while it lasted...
...University of Illinois, Associate Professor Earl R. Leng has developed a dwarf corn that he hopes will some day end farmers' worries from windstorm damage. The short stalk is also ideal for automated pickers. By crossing his dwarf corn with teosinte, a Mexican grass, he has also developed a stalk with 20 small ears all along the stalk. If he can increase the size of the ears, the corn of 1965 may well resemble a hat tree...
Born. To Jerry Lee Lewis, 23, rock-'n'-oll singer whose tour of Great Britain TIME, June 9) was cut short by public outrage ("Go home, baby snatcher! Go wheel your wife in a pram!"), and Myra .ewis, 14, his cousin and third wife: a ion, their first child; in Ferriday...