Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocketeer Oberth's work had inspired many another young German rocket bug, most of them flirting dangerously with destruction as they pursued their untried hobby. Von Braun joined a small group firing rockets from an abandoned ammunition dump in suburban Berlin. When he left for a term at Zurich's Institute of Technology, he continued his experiments, built a contraption that spun mice in simulation of rocket takeoffs. Afterward, his roommate, an American medical student, dissected the mice, announced to Von Braun that the high acceleration caused cerebral hemorrhages. Their landlady had another kind of announcement: any more...
...attempt to nail Governor Griffin, who once ruled both houses of the legislature with little trouble, signaled that Griffin has run head on into Georgia Kingmaker Herman Talmadge, his predecessor as governor and now Georgia's junior U.S. Senator. Under Georgia law, Griffin may not run again at term's end. Talmadge and his U.S. Senate colleague, Richard Russell, want Lieut. Governor Ernest Vandiver for Georgia's next governor. Griffin is backing former State Highway Board Chairman Roger H. Lawson, presumably because Lawson would turn the governor's chair back to Griffin...
Nominated last week for a fourth term as New Orleans' mayor (and facing no Republican opposition in the April 8 general election): balding, bouncy Democrat deLesseps Story Morrison, 46, onetime boy wonder of Louisiana politics. During the campaign, Morrison's five primary opponents tilted at crime and police corruption, taunted the mayor as "a dictator," whipped up false fears over integration. Confident "Chep" Morrison calmly pointed to the glassy, classy $8,000,000 city hall he built, the miles of Morrison-paved streets, improved garbage collections, New Orleans' impressive new railroad terminal and the 30 buildings added...
Even while election-night returns were rolling in, New Orleans wondered what the political future might hold for its energetic mayor. Under a new 1954 charter pushed by Morrison himself, Morrison's fourth term will be his last. He is anxious to progress in politics, will at midterm in 1960 have two opportunities to make headway: he can oppose the gubernatorial candidate put up by outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would...
...adult diabetic should get long-term treatment with either insulin or tolbutamide until he has reduced to a proper weight and it has been shown that diet alone will not control the diabetes...