Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined up the kids, varying in age from almost three to 20, for a briefing session on father Ogle's latest assignment. Once, when a uranium rush took him to Lake Athabaska in northern Saskatchewan, which would be about four inches above the top of the Ogle...
...winter of 1945-46, Knowland made his first trip to the Far East with a Senate committee investigating the disposal of surplus war properties. In Tokyo he met General Douglas MacArthur and was enormously impressed, but not overwhelmed (Knowland is a hard man to overwhelm). He was fascinated by Asia's political and economic problems and, once back in Washington, began studying them. After hours and weeks and months of concentrated self-education, he came to an unshakable conviction: in its preoccupation with Europe, the U.S. was disastrously neglecting Asia...
...prospects of visits by two European socialist politicos not noted for their friendliness to the Stars and Stripes. West Germany's opposition boss, roly-poly Erich Ollenhauer, definitely planned on conferring with Washington bigwigs next month. In Britain, toned-down Laborite Aneurin Bevan mulled a springtime trip "to study U.S. policy...
Excessive flight-time has worried spacemen ever since Jules Verne's "voyage" to the moon in a habitable projectile (see cut). Today's rocket speeds are good for trips in the solar system, but for interstellar voyages they are hopelessly slow. Conservative space enthusiasts accept the speed of light as the absolute speed limit in the material universe, and they know that even at this ultimate speed a spaceship can reach only nearby stars within a human generation. This seems to put a limit on man's interstellar mobility. But some optimistic scientists see hope in "time...
...this trip Ed Wadsworth will play in the number nine position and Dick Weinberg will hold down the tenth singles spot...