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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight to ten ground teams strategically located in Russia and by airplane air sampling when necessary. Coupled with this limitation on air and water tests was an invitation to Russia to join the U.S. in renewed underground tests. Object: to determine whether new detection refinements, e.g., seismographic instruments sunk deep into the earth, are effective enough to trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Workable Test Ban | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...become the first team in National Hockey League history to carry off the Stanley Cup four years in a row. But the Canadiens' remarkable accomplishment had to share top billing with the Leafs' improbable achievement in being there at all. Only two months ago the Leafs were sunk in the league cellar, with no prospects of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big-Time Talker | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Andros Island, Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish tycoon (Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Bofors guns), has sunk $11 million in a long-range resort-and-home-building project. On the northern end of Andros, Parker Pen Co. Chairman Kenneth S. Parker is developing 8,500 acres of building and truck-gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Treasure Islands | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...rest of the period was played on fairly even terms. After Tadgh Sweeney sunk a long, tricky bounce shot from near the center of the field, Holy Cross tallied twice and narrowed the Crimson lead...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Lacrosse Team Wins, 8-6 | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

After 11 minutes of the third period, it looked as if the Crimson had sewed up the game. Cabral's goal early in the frame put the varsity ahead 7 to 3, and after 10 minutes of indecisive lacrosse, Andy Leaf sunk what was to be the varsity's last score...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Lacrosse Team Bows, 11-8 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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