Word: north
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the eyes of the world's millions following him as never before, Dwight Eisenhower flies out of Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in his VIP-styled Boeing 707 this week on his historic mission to eleven nations in Western Europe, South Asia and North Africa. First stop, for refueling: Goose Bay, Labrador. Second stop: Rome. Before he completes the circuit and touches home again, he will travel for 19 days through 19,600 miles by plane, 270 by helicopter, 1,500 by ship, 1,000 by train and car on the longest overseas trip ever made...
...week, Mrs. Morris Courington, wife of a Chicago merchandising executive, helplessly worried about the model suburban home going up across the street. "It just can't happen in Deerfield," she said. "It just can't." Like almost everybody else in Deerfield (pop. 10,000), a handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board meeting in the grade school gym. There an angry...
...crowded Winthrop House forum that lasted into the early morning hours, seven young North African leaders--of student, labor and "scouting" movements in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco--heard their spokesman, Ait Chaalal, President of the General Union of Algerian Moslem Students, put forth the cause of Algerian freedom and independence from France...
ATOMIC POWER PLANTS, of practical, small size, are coming along fast. North American Aviation has developed 220-lb. reactor that is no bigger than a 5-gal. milk can but produces 3 kw. of power. Small power package was originally designed for space satellites...
...North by Northwest. Adman Gary Grant tangles unwittingly with Spy Ringleader James Mason, succumbs to Double Agent Eva Marie Saint, winds up the hero of this thoroughly entertaining Hitchcock-and-bull story...