Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long he will remain this time is something his associates say they can't answer yet. At least he will stay over the weekend. However, Eisenhower has bounced back with surprising speed. Aides won't rule out a possibility that he might yet go to the NATO meeting in Paris in mid-December...
...nose of the rocket used to launch Sputnik I should come down to earth some time this weekend, possibly blazing like a meteor, Fred L. Whipple, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, announced last night...
Whipple reported that the observatory will notify all Moon watch teams and the Armed Forces to be on the alert over the weekend, even during hours when the rocket might not be visible...
...Institute also released information regarding the death of Alpha I, the first Sputnik's rocket, which should come to earth over the weekend. Dr. Armand Spitz of the Smithsonian staff stated that the "actual death of Alpha should be a spectacular event, a bright flashing streak visible for hundreds of miles...
...Horn force is to be a sort of revolving reserve of trained men. No more than 80,000 territorialists will be in uniformed service at one time, some getting their three to six months' basic training, others returning for weekend refreshers (all will serve within 25 miles of home if possible). Such troops would eventually be equipped with tanks, artillery and antiaircraft weapons (but not, in present thinking, with planes...