Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles southwest of London, British flyers put on a dazzling display for 8,000 foreign visitors last week. Fourteen Hawker Hunter jet fighters looped through a whisker-tight formation. Two twin-jet Scimitar fighter-bombers barreled in for a landing, folded their wings just in time to allow a third Scimitar to fly in head-on between them. But all the planes on display and the superb acrobatics could not hide the fact that Britain's aircraft industry is losing altitude fast. Even the empire-loving London Daily Express warned its readers not to be "fooled" by "the Farnborough...
Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 33, former chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, who resigned last week after three years of tireless probing, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 31: their seventh child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Kerry. Weight...
Died. Frank Comerford Walker, 73, portly, tight-lipped movie-house owner and the third of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four Catholic national chairmen (1943-44), who began his political career by donating $10,000 to F.D.R.'s 1928 gubernatorial campaign, as a watchful Postmaster General (1940-45) tried to revoke Esquire Magazine's second-class mailing privileges because of its spicy contents; in Manhattan...
Wide geographic distribution is characteristic of both freshmen classes, with all states and 30 foreign countries represented in the Yard, and 38 states and 6 countries at Radcliffe. About one third of each class will receive financial aid, a figure close to that of previous years...
...guard Bill Swinford, and fullback Chuck Reed, tackled hard and often. Reed also intercepted an astray Williams pass and ran effectively on offense. Big Chet Boulris showed bursts of power and speed that would carry him five yards with two tacklers hanging on grimly; he scored the Crimson's third touchdown on a dive through left tackle midway through the second period...