Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by President Eisenhower. But NASC is a committee, with all a committee's shortcomings; so far it has met a total of only three times. Wrote New York Times Military Columnist Hanson W. Baldwin last week: "There are any number of men [in Washington] who can say no to suggested space projects. There are very few men who can or will...
With Ike & Rocky. His trip to the U.S. will be the first state visit ever made to the U.S. by an Argentine President (although Frondizi saw the country as a tourist in 1948). He will be met at Washington's National Airport by President and Mrs. Eisenhower. In three days in Washington, Frondizi will dine with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...railroad worker in Washington, B.C.. Baylor learned his basketball playing settlement-house and playground ball ("I'd play anywhere to get a game"). When he graduated from high school in 1954, his marks were as bad as his basketball was good, but he landed a scholarship at tolerant College of Idaho. Freshman Baylor averaged 31 points a game, led the team to a 23-4 season, then transferred to Seattle University, where he really developed his talents. Last year Baylor trapped rebounds one-handed on the backboard, scored 32.5 points a game (second to Cincinnati's Oscar...
...appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports a 35% jump in sales for the first eight days of 1959: "Last year the buyers at the show were all just walking around looking, with long faces-this year they were all smiling and buying. It is the greatest...
...Johnson, who. when he was finally forced to resign from NRA, in his farewell speech to his staff tearfully quoted (in Italian) the lines sung by Madame Butterfly before she commits harakiri. Author Schlesinger also manages a certain amount of humor in describing the great rush of theorists to Washington, including the Agricultural Department lawyer who. on a field trip. saw his first lightning bug and cried: "Good God! What's that...