Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After reading TIME'S account of the sophomoric views of Sir Julian Huxley, one almost despairs of hoping that he and his better known brother Aldous will ever grow up to the size of their intellects. HERBERT O. WILLIAMS Arlington, Va...
...four: Mains, sales vice president of the Union Fork & Hoe Co. of Columbus; William G. Rector and Robert R. Raymond, president and vice president of the True Temper Corp. of Cleveland; and F. Bliss Winn. president of the O. Ames Co. division of McDonough Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment charged that at meetings held over the past five years they discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other parties to the agreements (who got immunity to testify for the Government), the defendants...
...Arriving in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. for a Governors' meeting, Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced that he has extended his mid-December Midwest speaking tour to include stops at Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, St. Louis and Miami. Rocky, who has already covered nearly 8,000 miles testing the sentiments of both professionals and amateurs, told a "background" session of reporters that he now regards the contest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination as a campaign of the "pros against the people." In other words, he must beguile the Republican-in-the-street-and the independent voter -in order to win over...
From the NASA base at Wallops Island, Va., a Little Joe rocket (a cluster of eight solid-fuel rockets) took off with a full-scale astronaut capsule perched on nose. No man was inside it, only a rhesus monkey named Sam and a collection of meal worms, bacteria, molds and other biological samples. Strapped to a kind of cocoon lined with plastic foam sat Sam the monkey, riding in astronaut's "chair." Sam and cocoon were enclosed in an inner, air-conditioned " logical package," thick with straps, wi and instruments to test Sam's reactions...
What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...