Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stripped of Ceremony. In Virginia Beach, Va., tourists stopping at the Knight's Inn found a note on the desk register: "Too hot! Just take any empty room and go to the beach. I have...
...energy administrators, made headlines at last year's atoms-for-peace conference at Geneva by complaining that the U.S. meant to blast off H-bombs in the guise of atoms for peace; Minister of Higher and Middle Specialized Education Vyacheslav P. Elyutin, 52, a metallurgist, moved on to take over the organization of higher education in the U.S.S.R., says: "Science is the discipline of the 20th century"; Health Specialist Alexander Markov, 58, public health expert, who has since January 1954 headed the Health Ministry department that services the Kremlin, hence is the man who must sign the death certificates...
Chief testing point for Big Joe was its ability to keep a passenger alive. From the moment that it was hurled from its Cape Canaveral pad by an Atlas-D, the capsule's recording system went to work. Ten microphones registered the take-off noise-120-130 decibels (plenty loud, but not unmanageable for well-protected ears). Temperature readings recorded interior and exterior heat from more than 100 different points. Though Big Joe climbed 100 miles above the earth, malfunctioning booster engines in the Atlas kept the bird from reaching out to its planned distance; after thundering about...
...well trimmed, its homes are split level or ranch, its streets neat and winding. To the 40O-home subdivision of Park Terrace in Markham last week drove a young, house-hunting couple. They cruised for a while, stopped off at the sales office, asked Sales Manager Milton Lewis to take them through the model homes. "Certainly," said Lewis. "Of course, you folks are aware that Park Terrace is a Negro development...
...clearly right that the people should have the opportunity of deciding, as soon as practicable, who are to represent them in these negotiations." The papers immediately labeled it a "summit election,", and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, caught off base visiting Premier Khrushchev in Moscow, hurried home to take up the challenge. Asked Laborite Gaitskell at London airport: Isn't it "better to be represented by people who have all along believed in the need for a summit meeting...