Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace him at NORAD's headquarters in Colorado Springs, President Eisenhower last week tabbed four-star General Lawrence S. (for Sherman) Kuter, 53, Air Force commander in the Pacific. A brigadier general at 36-he was then the youngest general* in the nation's armed forces -slim, mustached West Pointer ('27) Larry Kuter saw duty in Britain, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, was the first boss (1948-51) of the Military Air Transport Service...
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the meet was Crimson sophomore Frank Yeomans in the 100. Competing against Coffin and Cornell's George Ekstrom, he took a slim lead after 50 yards and held it the rest of the way to give the varsity an unexpected five points...
Among Van Allen's immediate interests is a 20-lb. satellite scheduled for launching next fall. If all goes well, it will settle into a slim, elliptical orbit, soaring out six earth radii (24.000 miles) at apogee. It should stay up for hundreds of years, and it will have solar batteries to keep its radio voices alive for a long time. Its duty will be to report continuously on the radiation belt, study how it is affected by sunspots and other solar eruptions. Its fluctuations may have important effects on the earth's weather...
Quaker Bob Reed is the choice by a slim margin in the broad jump, but the varsity's Bob Downs and Pat Liles could finish one-two with a little luck. Cornell's John Murray is far and away the best pole vaulter in the field, having cleared 14 feet...
...meant an end to childhood. He was enthroned at Lhasa in 1940 and endowed with many names-the Tender, Glorious One, the Holy One, the Mighty of Speech, the Excellent Understanding, the Absolute Wisdom, the Defender of the Faith. He sat through the hours-long ceremonies without complaint, a slim, grave-eyed boy with protuberant ears...