Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential politics last week and in weeks past were Republican. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful Richard Nixon made news whatever he did and wherever he went, addressing the Football Writers Association and attending the Baltimore Colts-College All-Star football game in Chicago, speaking on radio and television about his trip to Russia and Poland, even getting a surprise pat on the back from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who praised the work of Nixon's anti-inflation committee. Republican Hopeful
...then, had Red China wheeled up such heavy political artillery? The minimum Communist ambition may be to frighten Phoui into accepting return of the international control commission and readmitting the Laotian Reds into his government. But this seemed hardly worth a fuss that might queer Khrushchev's trip to the U.S.-unless, as some British diplomats speculate, it was Mao's way of reminding Khrushchev that Red China does not want any thaw in U.S.-Russian relations. The U.S. State Department, however, implicitly accused Moscow of complicity in the Laos invasion (after all, Ho Chi Minh had just...
...Stockholm a much more impressive haul from China sat in a customs shed. It was a treasure hoard picked up in Peking by Nils Nessim, 43, a Swedish carpet dealer and importer. On a previous trip to Red China last year he had bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized...
...steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took off on its 700-mile trip down range. Crowed the Navy: "A complete, unqualified success." But Polaris, the U.S.'s only solid-fuel IRBM, has yet to be tested at full power, is still months from operational status...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-The first trip under the ice at the North Pole by The Nautilus is still the stuff of high adventure, even in a rerun...