Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Science, which follows the fiery trail of last week's cover story on space satellites with a penetrating look at the rocket re-entry problem, illustrated by five pages of color photographs, including the first shot of an ICBM nose cone streaking through the dense lower atmosphere...
...nation's 40 million home gardeners, Burpee this year has five new flowers: Pink Peony asters, Gloriosa golden daisies, Glamour Shades snapdragons. Miracle marigolds and Trail Blazer zinnias. "Today's gardener," says Burpee, "wants what is easy to grow and spectacular to look at. We are working for bigger flowers on dwarfer plants. Americans want them big, but now, because of ranch-type houses, they want flowers low to the ground...
...Oregon trail for Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was really the end of a long, grinding, cross-country reconnaissance in force. In the Oregon primary last week, the youthful Bostonian gave U.S. Senator Wayne Lyman Morse the drubbing of his political life and registered his seventh straight primary victory-the final one on his schedule. In the seven triumphs (New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, West Virginia, Nebraska, Maryland and Oregon), Jack Kennedy was the favorite of 1,500,000 voters, added some 330 committed delegate votes* to his convention strength. More important, by campaigning the hard, primary way, he had buried...
...executive age. Shortly before the changeover, Laro quit the Post to join the Los Angeles Mirror-News as executive editor; last week Donahue followed, was hired as the Mirror-News's assistant managing editor. Nearly a dozen other Post staffers have indicated that they might hit the trail to California too. To reassure the staff about its new boss, young Hobby stuck this sentence into the Post's news story of the change: "Former Governor William P. Hobby became managing editor...
...seven years (1826-33) during which he lived it up in England and on the Continent. The mountainous, two-volume compilation-a bluestocking's tribute to Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high...