Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orbiting mass of Sputnik III (official name: 1958 Delta) may not be more than dog-carrying Sputnik II, which remained attached to its rocket. The Russians gave the weight of Sputnik II's payload as 1,120 Ibs., but the whole assembly, including the rocket, was about 84 ft. long, and U.S. scientists believe that it may have weighed 7,000 Ibs. Sputnik III is probably as heavy all told, but may not be heavier...
...first event is the Interfraternity Sing. Forty percent of Brown's undergraduates belong to fraternities. The 17 houses on campus have been rehearsing for weeks, and urging the brothers to participate, so that they can take the crown away from Alpha Delta Phi, which has held it for a while...
Another beer can rattles down the walk, and another, and another. The container of a more expensive drink crashes against the brick wall of Phi Delta Theta. Another beer can rattles into a little sapling...
...baseball as a player. He caught a ball on his nose, and quit. At the University of Pennsylvania he shunned athletics to become the complete politician. "I believe he was the first man ever to become president of both his junior and senior class," says a fraternity brother (Theta Delta Chi). "It was typical of him that although he didn't dance, he ran the class dances-and made money out of them...
...that, or the industry may see a rash of mergers, leading off with Northeast, which won the rich New York-Florida run last year and still lost $1,000,000 in the first quarter of 1958. National might merge with Northeast to eliminate a rival on the Florida route. Delta and American could also gain entry, help solve their own problems by taking over the struggling line...