Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Barbed Wire. An Army helicopter stood ready on the grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
...magnetic field in a laboratory rather than on a global scale. Nick's paper proposing Project Argus, written in late 1957, was not published except in classified form, and not all scientists agree that it was the first such proposal. Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland is said to have written an earlier paper but kept it secret on official request. Christofilos himself is not sure. Says he: "I knew Fred Singer was in the same area, but he had no security clearance, so I did not discuss Argus with...
...Second-Prize Winner Frank Wayne Grimm, 17, of Maryland's Catonsville senior high school, won $6,000 for his study of the snail population in a part of Maryland's Susquehanna Valley, hopes to take a degree in zoology at the University of Michigan...
North Carolina, which took the lead a week ago, skidded to third place after an upset by Maryland...
Last week Continental ended its most ambitious drive to recruit "65-Plus" policyholders in seven states-New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware-and the District of Columbia. Previously Continental had offered the plan in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and California, and it is expected to add more states soon...