Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the trip is labeled "unofficial," Nixon-highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the U.S.S.R. since Franklin Roosevelt went to Yalta in 1945-will probably be accorded a typical Khrushchev welcome at the Kremlin, particularly if a summit conference is imminent. But chances are that Nixon would not attend the summit conference, since the President is reluctant to have both himself and the Vice President out of the country at the same time...
...computations, made shortly after the launching, showed that Discoverer II was orbiting faster than anticipated: 90.5 minutes for the round trip instead of 94 minutes. Quickly, scientists pinpointed the spot where the automatic ejection would occur: the area of Norway's Spitzbergen archipelago, far beyond the Arctic Circle -some 700 miles from the North Pole. Finding the capsule in Spitzbergen's icy wastes would be hard enough. Tougher still was another problem: under agreement with Soviet Russia, which operates coal mines in Spitzbergen, Norway permits no military operations in the area, keeps the archipelago strictly, delicately neutral...
...hostages, and to report convict grievances (bucket toilets, young prisoners mixed with older men, a hated state parole commissioner). "It's tighter than hell," he said. "They're shook." Once he went back, as he had promised, to sit under the jugs; on the second trip Warden Powell refused his pleas to return...
...This was the Crimson's third loss in a row and second defeat in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Yesterday's failure blackened the varsity's hopes for winning the E.I.B.L. title, and may lead to a disappointing season for a team which showed much promise during its spring trip...
...Dartmouth today to play the Indians in a contest which it must win if it is to retain hope for the Eastern Rugby Union title. The Indians will probably be the most powerful opposition the Crimson will face this year, but for the first time since the Berrmuda trip the varsity is almost at full strength...