Word: york
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth, it would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed of many modern fighter craft. Duration of flight from Los Angeles to New York: one hour...
...Thanksgiving Day, New York University officials had ripped the sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted...
Like many another College listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed to try some tougher ones. "It was a mistake," he recalls. "We had the dullest show in the world. The minute you have anything harder than a subject, predicate and question mark, they can't answer them...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). First U.S. broadcast of Ernest Krenek's Piano Concerto...
...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...