Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headed by a lead-footed woodchopper named Yan Kruminsh, who towers like a sequoia (7 ft. 3 in., 320 lbs.), the first Russian basketball team to visit the U.S. opened a six-game tour in Madison Square Garden, lost to the postgraduate amateurs of the Phillips Oilers...
Smartening Up Mummy. To become teachers, most of the 29 men gave up higher-paying jobs. Ernest Knight, 43, has six children, earned $2,800 a year as a textile salesman. His income for the next two years will be $588, and he has sold his car to help squeak by ("I know I've made the right decision"). A father of two, David Miller, 37, not only sold his grocery store, but got his wife to attend college as well. "We're budgeted to the last penny," says he. "Our kids will get threepenny ice-cream cones...
...popular standards, the London Economist is as out of place on U.S. newsstands as the Congressional Record in Piccadilly Circus. Devotedly British, the 116-year-old weekly Economist is scholarly and staid in its content, a bit stuffy in its appearance, and it usually devotes only five or six pages per issue to the U.S. (in "American Survey," a department introduced seven years ago). Yet last week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan sold...
...named Clarence Birdseye, a fur trader, biologist and Yankee tinkerer from Gloucester, Mass. On a trip to Labrador some 40 years ago, Birdseye began to wonder why fish and meat that he froze quickly in the -50° temperature tasted just as good and fresh when he cooked them six months later, while food frozen by the old, slow method lost much of its quality and flavor. Birdseye persisted until he found out why: quick freezing prevents formation of large cell-destroying ice crystals. He went back home to Gloucester, worked out a commercial quick-freeze process...
AFRICAN WILDCATTING will be started by Gulf Oil. Gulf has made deal with the Spanish government to spend $7,750,000 seeking oil in Spanish Guinea in the next six years...