Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This spring formation flights over Moscow of Russian intercontinental jet bomb ers startled the Air Force into a second look at the jet fighters scheduled to take over U.S. air defense in the next few years. Last week a new production sched ule for Air Force supersonic fighters was revealed...
...Empress will make her maiden voyage next spring and will sail weekly between Canada and Britain, catering especially to the economy-minded family trade. She will carry only 150 first-class passengers, but will have tourist accommodations for 900. Her predecessor of the same name was famed for her luxurious ballrooms and bars; the new Empress will advertise its battery of washing machines, dryers and ironing rooms for parents traveling with children...
...acre estate 60 miles north of Manhattan, it was like commencement time, but the class that, graduated last week was no ordinary one. The average age of its twelve members was 64. All had retired, and all had come to the Cold Spring Institute having no idea what to expect. As a matter of fact, the institute had no definite idea either. Still in its infancy, the institute had embarked on a bold experiment to find some sort of answer to an increasingly urgent problem: what to do about the growing population of older people now in danger of moldering...
Conversation & Cosmetics. In their nine months at Cold Spring, only two things were required of them. They had to take part in "rhythmic" exercises, and they had to attend a weekly lecture by some expert imported from outside. Otherwise, the twelve were encouraged to devise their own programs. They studied in the institute's well-stocked library, worked in its shops and greenhouse, tramped through its acres of woods, set up a whole series of heated round-table discussions. Under the deft guidance of Psychologist Ruth Andrus, they not only rediscovered the art of conversation, they also found...
...Before coming to Cold Spring, Miss Ella May Holbrock, 77, found that she was far from satisfied with just keeping house for her niece. Now, with the new interests she has discovered, she intends to return to Watertown, N.Y., join a local dramatic society and put some zip in the Senior Citizens Club. "In an old-age group like that," says she, "there are too many who just want to sit around and play pedro...