Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets, famed for their spaceborne dog Laika, said they rocketed two more dogs 280 miles up somewhere over European Russia, recovered the animals-alive. The hermetically sealed passengers were both female, the Russians added, named Belyanka (Whitey) and Pestraya (Spot). Total weight of the rocket and dogs...
...Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart. In 1950 Candela made his-mark by designing (with Architect Jorge González Reyna) a concrete shell for Mexico's University City Cosmic Ray Pavilion so precisely engineered that its minimum thickness where it had to carry little weight was cut to a mere five-eighths of an inch...
...organizer for Hoffa's Central Conference of Teamsters, Baker visited Miami, there lavished $25,000-in Teamsters Union funds, naturally-on a house, swimming pool and Buick for his doxy. Since 1953 Baker has spent $2,200-also in Teamsters' money-for sanitarium treatment that brought his weight down from 420 Ibs. to an oafish...
This inconclusive conclusion to the Assembly's deliberations, which many cheered, was largely the doing of the great powers. In their anxiety to avoid even implicit U.N. condemnation as "aggressors," the U.S. and Britain had thrown their weight behind an innocuous Norwegian resolution to turn the problem of Lebanon and Jordan over to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. And Russia's Andrei Gromyko, though full of snarling references to Western "armed intervention" in the internal affairs of Middle Eastern nations, met privately with U.S. Secretary of State Dulles in a small office in the U.N., and agreed that...
...Japanese court (and put on suspended sentence) for shooting a Japanese woman scavenging brass from a U.S. Army firing range, and Haru Sueyama ("Candy") Girard, 30, who married him after the killing and before the trial: a daughter, their first child; in Ottawa, 111. Name: Roxanne Marie. Weight...