Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ratification of Los Angeles by a top-heavy 71-35, after a three-hour debate at the National Committee's session in Washington. The victory was a handsome push for Adlai Stevenson, longtime ally and presidential choice of the liberal Ziffren-Butler team. And this, even more than space, time and smog, was what worried moderate Easterners and conservative Southerners most...
...parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical attractions and repulsions. He was an immensely likable lush, and a wizard at the easel. But his pictures never sold well. They lacked extravagance and high polish; for all but the quietest of dining rooms they spoke too softly of small delights. At the end, his wife was forced...
WASHINGTON, March 6--The radio aboard America's sun satellite faded out today, and a space agency spokesman said "Pioneer IV is gone forever...
Yale allotted the HAA 398 seat tickets, despite purchases of about 600 tickets by University undergraduates and alumni in previous years. Limited space in the new 2908-seat Insells Rink was blamed for the cutback...
What the Air Force in particular, and the Armed Forces in general, should recognize is that publicity can consist of a relatively simple alert in advance--such as those available for the satellites and lunar probes which have been launched by the National Agency for Space and Aeronautics as part of the IGY. Attempts to conceal the entire operation may prevent public embarrassment in case of failure, but they can also diminish scientific value in case of success...