Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Eisenhower got well, he grew increasingly concerned about the missile-age command paralysis that might come to the nation in the event of presidential disability. When he flew across the Atlantic after his stroke last year to attend the NATO heads-of-government conference, he even pondered who could legally take command of the country if his plane had to ditch in midocean, with nobody to say whether the President of the U.S. was alive or dead...
...control center as well are the thousands of tubes and circuits that form the "time generator." This is the space age's electromechanical clockwork that provides the correct time to the thousandth of a second, so that when data is collected from all the film, tape, pen recorders, oscillographs and ballistic cameras up and down the 5,000-mile missile test range (see map), it can be correlated with absolute precision to give the story of just what happened when...
Freed at last from the clutches of his sister and her racist friends, Nietzsche may find his place in Germany and Europe not as a national but as a universal ancestor of a troubled age...
...secret underground laboratory, where there is an enormous refrigerator in which he keeps a big pile of arms, legs, brains and other spare parts collected from passing teenagers. In less time than it takes an ordinary doctor to take a temperature, they have built themselves a real live teen-age monster (Gary Conway) and fed the leftovers to a crocodile that is kept around as a sort of garbage-disposal unit. No sooner does the monster come out of the anesthetic than Professor Frankenstein, in deadly earnest, commands him: "Speak! You've got a civil tongue in your head...
...every woman of child-bearing age in the village, including the most repellent and chaste, turns out to be pregnant. There are, naturally, cases of attempted suicide and abortion and indignant husbands and shame-stricken spinsters. What seems to be an outbreak of mass parthenogenesis has raised problems of theological, scientific and political interest. This is nothing to what happens when the village doctor has his busy days and the little strangers prove to be stranger than is customary even in science fiction. The fathers, it is now clear, came from outer space, and left no forwarding address...