Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward week's end, the setting changed. The steel-grey Hudson and its heroic cliffs gave place to the Nittany Valley of Pennsylvania, rolling placidly southeast from the low green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was raining-not a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle...
...Sale: Human Milk. The floods that devastated about one-tenth of Red China's farmland last year were the worst floods of the century; then, for central and southeast China, came the sharpest frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
Family & Early Years: He was born on a 170-acre farm three miles southeast of Boulder, Colo, and 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean, of Swedish and Pennsylvania Dutch stock (his grandfather changed his name from Bjorkegren). The eldest of six children, Arleigh found his life was paced by farm chores. A sister remembers: "When he was four years old, he was out in the fields leading the stacking horse" when the hay was harvested. In an essay on military training, written in grade school, young Burke said: "This training teaches one of the greatest problems of success: discipline...
...beach site. If and when the government builds H.J. his island, he will rent it from the government and spend another $50 million there for hotels, an aquarium, convention hall and theater. Even then he does not intend really to rest. On the Kona coast 200 miles southeast of Waikiki, Kaiser plans to spend $40 million for hotels, a yacht basin, hillside homes, fishing boats. Said he: "There's a need for more vacation facilities-a human need. When I was 22 I decided Florida would never develop a tourist business and passed up a chance...
...Southeast Asia manager three years later. Wherever he went Symonds showed a rare sympathy for the impoverished, war-torn Asians he met and wrote about. "He was always sympathetic and respectful to them," says one correspondent who worked with him, "and that's more than a lot of us were...