Word: john
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive spout. Fifth time, an observer phoned the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 60 miles away. There Dr. John W. Kanwisher put in a hurried call to Dr. White, then drove to Provincetown, where he had to spend the night on the beach, waiting for the low tide. Dr. White tried to get there by air, was defeated by icing...
...countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular track inside the doughnut, triumphantly saw the oscillograph's curve reach 29 Bev, putting CERN's machine far ahead...
Significantly, regular book publishers are eying the growing art-book market, and many have plunged in. Simon & Schuster has on its list John Canaday's clear, instructive Mainstreams of Modern Art ($12.50). Viking produced the year's loftiest cheesecake with Masterpieces...
...play and decided that she would impress Coe, not by acting, but by being Gittel. "I made sure he found me with one shoe off, scratching my foot," she recalls. "And when I got inside his office, the first thing I said was, 'Where's the John?' It was just the sort of thing Gittel would have said. I didn't have to go, really, but I went. He asked me to come back the next...
...dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens as the villain (Howard St. John) slinks upon the scene in the form of that well-known Cappitalist, General Bullmoose ("What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A."). His plot: to secure the secret formula of Yokumberry Tonic and sell it to the thirsty public as Yoka Cola...