Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table before two huge screens, one enlarging teletype messages from the Cape, the other carrying Pentagon messages back to the site. Elaborately, Von Braun lectured the attending brass on the rocket, described the painstaking timing and complex processes that must bring the big bird to life for its skyward trip. Then everybody settled down to wait. In his cottage at Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower stayed near his telephone...
Call the Cops! Afterward, Kansas City called again. Louise Eisenhower wanted the funeral service in Kansas City, the burial in suburban Hartsdale, N.Y. The President asked Milton to come down from Baltimore, join him in a one-day trip to Kansas City on the Columbine...
...persistent report that Ohio's Democratic kingfish, the unbeatable Frank Lausche, dislikes the U.S. Senate, may come home to run for governor the seventh time. Lausche so far has said nothing, but his influential wife Jane set candidates worrying when she showed up in Columbus on a shopping trip, told a friend: "I miss Columbus so much. This is really my home, not Washington...
...most beautiful city in the world," has spent much of his time ever since dashing about Turkey's ancient capital to determine personally which streets shall be widened, which buildings demolished, which squares enlarged, and where new roads are to run. Some months ago, during a diplomatic trip to Baghdad, Turkey's Premier rose in the middle of the night to dispatch a cable to Istanbul: "Have decided to tear down house opposite Spice Bazaar at Eminonu Square. Proceed with expropriation...
...Rome to discuss with the head of his congregation a matter that was troubling some of its members in the U.S. -the best way to preach the Roman Catholic faith to Americans. Within a few days, he found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last Pope Pius IX dispensed Father Hecker and four other priests from their Redemptorist vows, with...