Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than present models; 2) improvement of solid fuels to get more reliability and longer range; 3) production of a fleet of new-design nuclear submarines, each equipped to store, transport and fire a big salvo. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke looks to test-fire the first Polaris this summer, to get Polaris operational before 1960. The Air Force also is interested in a solid-fuel, Polaris-type missile for its own land-based "second generation...
When the expedition reaches the U.S. polar base, Fuchs will have to review his decision to brave the 1,200 miles to the Ross Sea. The nearest supply cache left by Hillary is 500 miles away, and toward the end of the short Antarctic summer the weather will be too bad for reliable air transportation. If his hard-punished Sno-Cats break down or run out of fuel, the howling blizzards that blow in February may make it impossible to rescue...
Garden District comprises two Tennessee Williams plays laid in New Orleans. Something Unspoken, dealing with an uppity society woman and her secretary-companion, is a warm-up piece that leaves the spectator cold. Suddenly Last Summer is a vivid display of Williams' unique virtues and persisting excesses. A kind of psychological suspense piece, it works backward from the knowledge of a self-luxuriating "poet's" death to the nature of it. His rich, ruthless mother had long shared her son's dubious traveled life, but when she had a slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin...
Promising sophomores like Ed Martin and Pat Liles will be watched especially closely, in view of their excellent records last year. Martin will probably start in both the mile and the one thousand yard races, while Liles will compete in the broad jump, an event he won in last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet. Middle-distance man Art Cahn and jumper Bob Downes will also be making their first starts at the varsity level...
Although final details have not been worked out, Radcliffe students will possibly use Stillman Infirmary. The projected Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center could not be completed before the summer of 1960, at the earliest date...