Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patterson's dealings aroused Alabama's anti-Semites. In June, Patterson spoke to the state legislature, expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom he admired. Patterson promptly spoke up in favor of Catholic Jack Kennedy's presidential candidacy (TIME, July...
...supplies, of which Hassi Messaoud alone consumes 2,400 tons a week. Almost everything but water (which is mercifully plentiful underground) has to be flown or trucked into the camps from Algiers. A truck driver on the Algiers-Edjelé run, accustomed to six or seven blowouts per trip, and to having his truck frequently immobilized by sandstorms for days on end, says: "Every time I reach Edjelé, I collapse more or less where I stand, and swear I will never make the run again...
...Andes ski boom growing faster than in Chile, as the crowds bundled aboard trains, buses, open trucks and even motor scooters, bound for the ski towns that dot the western Andes for 700 miles. By season's end an estimated 17,000 skiers will have made the trip up and down the snow-buried Andes and spent millions along...
...deal came too late to refurbish the shabby hotel for this season, but Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast...
...hoped-for result is the first relatively detailed map of the Van Allen belts, which present a formidable barrier to interplanetary flight. Previous earth satellites have not gone high enough to examine the enormous breadth of the Van Allen radiation. Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into orbit around the sun. Several devices in Explorer VI are studying the belts' range and fluctuating intensities. In one experiment, high-energy particles are measured by a 2-in. cube that holds seven tiny, gas-filled cylinders shielded with lead. The particles...