Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's 15,800,000) and fastest growing (at a breakneck clip of 500,000 a year since 1950) state in the Union. In its infinite variety, in professionally sophisticated San Francisco and professionally unsophisticated Los Angeles, in the big cotton growers of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys and the lettuce growers of the Salinas Valley, in Okies and Arkies come to suburban prosperity, in oil drillers and gold diggers and pensioners and professors, California provides a political spectrum that can cast its colors nationwide...
Harvey Mudd's permanent faculty is young (average age: 34) and bright. Recruiting is not difficult for President Platt; in addition to the fine climate and mountain-valley site, the college pays excellent salaries and offers new faculty members the chance to spend part of their first year doing nothing but planning courses. Large areas of the new college's curriculum are still not mapped in detail, and professors meet to dovetail their separate requirements at beer-and-sandwich klatches...
Alfa's beefsteak includes Thach's flagship, the aircraft carrier Valley Forge, eight destroyers, two submarines, a squadron of Valley Forge-based Grumman 52F sub-hunting aircraft, a helicopter squadron, a land-based patrol squadron of P2Vs, blimps, 5,000 men, a vast electronic network of electronic eyes and ears. Its armament is a marvel of the Atomic Age: included are nuclear depth charges, nicknamed Betty and Lulu, each with sufficient explosive force to lift the entire U.S. Navy (901 ships) clear out of the water...
...leveled out and rammed the submarine, its wooden nose smashing forward near the port torpedo tubes. The aircraft turned and headed back to the flagship. Sea Leopard was destroyed. Nothing was left. Only the sea, ominous and black and still. And 40 miles away, on the bridge of the Valley Forge, Admiral Jimmy Thach silently studied the reports of the submarine's death. The kill had come under relatively soft circumstances: Sea Leopard was nonnuclear, its "missile" countdown had required it to expose itself on the surface for 15 minutes-yet it still got off its shot. As compared...
With a front-lawn place kick, Amos Alonzo Stagg warmed up to watch a football game between two teams of Sacramento Valley high school allstars, who dedicated their contest to the grand old man of football on his 96th birthday. All set for his 68th coaching season (as advisory punting coach at California's Stockton College), the Yale '88 All-American and onetime coach of the University of Chicago, the College of the Pacific, and Susquehanna University found paydirt in the congratulatory mail. Among the notes from old quarterbacks, halfbacks and fullbacks were 10,690 greenbacks-insurance companies...