Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frosty Reception. In Anchorage, Alaska, a pair of penguins brought from the Antarctic to the Arctic Research Test Center died from exposure to the chilly northern winds...
...Critical test came in Norfolk, where, in a race-sensitive worker district, Norview High School was under order to open its doors to its 1,234 whites and seven Negro newcomers. Overly cautious, foresighted school officials delayed too long the day's most obvious move: unlocking the front doors. Hundreds of white pupils milled restlessly outside when the Negroes arrived, smiled hopefully, walked forward. Plainclothes police moved closer. Reporters, TV cameramen clustered noisily. "Hey, coon," hissed a leather-jacketed teenager, and reporters' pencils scribbled. But Virginia's Governor had not made riots respectable. Negro and white pupils...
...aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi, Hume was Johnny Bird, a Canadian test pilot. At intervals, he would vanish mysteriously on "business trips...
...Brennan, 30, will also run a player-conditioning program during spring training for the Cincinnati Redlegs. ¶ Australia's talented batsmen had no trouble at all surpassing England's 510 runs in their second innings without losing a wicket, won their third of the best-of-five test matches to regain the Ashes, symbol of cricket supremacy between the two nations since 1882. Wailed London's Daily Mail: "The worst and most humiliating failure by an English overseas team for many a decade." ¶In Boston, Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger, 25-year-old University of Oregon...
After experimenting with accident and health policies for auto-racing drivers, test pilots and United Nations truce teams, the Continental Casualty Co. (assets: $419,761,432) was ready to solve one of the insurance industry's greatest longtime problems: a low-cost hospital-surgical plan for persons 65 and over. With the help of International Business Machines' wonder-working 705 computer, Continental devised a radical new policy procedure that cuts costs sharply and comes close to automating insurance for oldsters...