Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star. Two Moonwatch teams near Washington have already had live practice. At Springfield, Va. 20 observers arranged themselves after dark under an odd-looking "T" of iron pipe with dim lights glowing at the ends of its horizontal member. The T showed the meridian, and the observers trained their telescopes so that their overlapping fields covered a north-and-south slice of sky through which the satellite should pass...
...neighbors' henhouses and picking cotton. Sundays he would sit at an old upright and play religious and "inspirational" songs. After a stint as an oiler in the merchant marine, he joined the Air Force, played in base bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs, vanilla and sugar, drives his 1957 white Oldsmobile convertible to the Washington studio...
Last week Texas Eastern was off again on another big deal. It won Federal Power Commission approval to spend $35 million on converting 1,168 miles (from Baytown, Texas to Moundsville, W. Va.) of the Little Big Inch line to petroleum products, including construction of a $13 million, 230-mile additional 14-in. spur from Seymour, Ind. to Chicago. To continue its present gas deliveries to the East, Texas Eastern will spend another $61 million on loops and compressors primarily along 453 miles of its 30-in. line from Beaumont, Texas to Uniontown...
West Pointer General Nathan F. Twining, 59, Air Force Chief of Staff and soon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took time off from a top-level conference at Quantico, Va., got photographed with the commandant of Marine Corps Schools there, Lieut. General Merrill B. Twining, 54, his seldom-publicized, Annapolis-educated kid brother...
Strike Down the Band. In Morgantown. W. Va.. Edward Alwen Patterson was fined $13 for breaking into the line of the Regional Band Festival parade in his old Chrysler bearing a sign: "All bands are overrated...