Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still flaming across the Middle East was the unanswered question of whether the Arabs want stability more than they want Nasser and his dreams of Indian-Ocean-to-the-Atlantic-Ocean world empire. And at week's end that other air-age diplomat, Nikita Khrushchev, flew back from Peking after totally secret, portentous talks with Red China's Chairman Mao, sat down in Moscow and growled as though a peaceful settlement of anything was the farthest thing from his mind...
...incorporating more sophisticated shelters into new homes and buildings. He would also pick an underground garage, school or hospital under construction in each state, put up the extra cost of adding shelter facilities, then urge local governments and industry to emulate the example. All in all, in an age when missiles have become a real threat, Hoegh's plans represented a modest beginning to a national necessity. But they were, at least, a beginning...
...Administration had submitted last January a reasonable, workable program for preventing union abuses, that the Democratic Senate had watered it down, and Republican prodding (mostly by California's Bill Knowland) had put some starch back into it. In the House, said Mitchell, Speaker Sam Rayburn let the bill age on his desk "40 days and 40 nights" before referring it to the anarchic House Labor Committee, chaired by North Carolina's molasses-moving Graham Barden...
...announced his retirement from the service seven months ago, after losing his battle to get a healthy boost in his 1959 budget (TIME, Jan. 13). This week LIFE published the second of two installments on Gavin's quickly written 304-page book, War and Peace in the Space Age (Harper; $5), a rumpus-raising attack on his old enemies and a sharp accusation that the Army is in bad shape technologically because the defense effort has been too concentrated on the Air Force. And this, he says, is doubly tragic, because: 1) limited wars using tactical atomic weapons...
...Annex Architect Teitaro Takahashi, 66, had a stylus ready when the Wright balloon came along. Said Takahashi: "Wright's building is not at all Japanese, as he claims, and many of its facilities are now outdated. It was nicely designed for its period, but that was the Ricksha Age...