Word: yellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When six-year-old Dickie Bonham began reading Mighty Mouse comic books a few months ago, he was overwhelmed by a pulse-stirring daydream: he began imagining himself flying through the air in red tights, a long-sleeved yellow pulloverand a flowing cape. He was a frail, asthmatic child, but doggedly determined; he hurried from his room in the Bonham home in Highland Park, Calif. and asked his mother whether he could learn to spread his arms...
Last week one of Dickie's friends asked him to play Indian. He agreed. But at the last minute he decided to try a different game. He put on a yellow sweat shirt, tied a bath towel around his neck like a cape. The boys headed for a 25-foot embankment. Dickie walked back from the brink, turned, ran as hard as he could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor...
...York City's Idlewild Airport, an alert photographer spotted a dangerous stowaway: a yellow-snouted beetle, ⅝-in. long, which was crawling along the coat collar of incoming Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Department of Agriculture inspectors hastily popped the bug into a vial of alcohol, sent it to Washington for identification. Last week the bug experts reported: it was "a formidable pest," a member of the Larinus family, which lives mainly in France and Italy, is sure death to thistles and artichokes...
There's a red and black warning posted around the college, Exams, it explains, are just around the corner. There's another warning being carried by students. This one is sort of yellow and black and has something to do with induction classification...
...Atlanta, one of his first moves was to have the old building cleaned of half a century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...