Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RALPH B. THOMAS Advertising Specialty National Association Washington...
That was it. Johnson left Convair experts to work out the details, returned to Washington to push the program through. The decision was made to keep the project secret, and secret it was: no more than 88 people ever knew of it. One day early last week, a few Army Signal Corps technicians showed up discreetly in the President's office, recorded the satellite message that Ike himself had written, tucked it away till it was needed at Cape Canaveral. Even the button pusher who fired the Atlas from the Cape blockhouse did not know that the bird contained...
...vastness of the federal farm problem at year's end measures the failure of the hopes and promises that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson brought with him to Washington nearly six years ago-and no one knows it better than Ezra Benson. In a speech last week in Los Angeles, like the legendary sorcerer's apprentice, he all but pushed the panic button in warning that the runaway price-support programs for wheat, tobacco and peanuts "might soon become disastrous." Said he: "We must complete our revision of the farm programs without delay...
Damn Yankees. A musical miracle play by some madcap Mephistopheleans, Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, turns the Washington Senators into home-run kings and pennant winners...
...Ages of Man. A tour through Shakespeare's plays and sonnets conducted by the man most suited for the job: Sir John Gielgud. In FREDERICKSBURG, PITTSBURGH, HARTFORD, GREAT NECK, N.Y., and WASHINGTON...