Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked on this week's cover story, that they turned two tiny diodes into a pair of unusual earrings (see cut). For what the electronics men themselves do with their new diodes, and where they hope to go from here, see BUSINESS, The New Age...
...SETAF's hands rest the vital early weapons of the Atomic Age: the rocket Honest John and the guided missile Corporal; the vast, complicated network of control panels and radar screens and radio beams that will aim and fire the supersonic Corporal at an enemy perhaps 200 miles away; the surprisingly agile 30-ton missile-carrying trucks; the truck-bed cranes called "cherry pickers" and the devastating wallop itself: atomic warheads. Today's army, SETAF is armed and ready for tomorrow's atomic...
When Britain's House of Commons sat down to the business of the week, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was all set to defend his drastic new atomic-age defense policy (TIME, April 15). But the Laborites seemed scarcely interested. Instead, with the nagging insistence characteristic of the troubled British conscience, the Laborites waged an inconclusive and none too logical debate among themselves on whether or not the government should go through with the scheduled test of Britain's first hydrogen bomb...
Many teen-age couples, afraid that the government is about to raise the age of consent to the mid-twenties (it is now 20 for men, 18 for women), are rushing into what the Peking People's Daily last week lambasted as "commando marriages." Another factor worrying Peking's Communist moralists is the rising divorce rate. The Workers' Daily recently had sharp words for a man who sought divorce on the ground that his wife was "too revolting to look at." "In fact," said the Workers' Daily, "this man has already been married for 20 years...
Comic Eddie Cantor, 65 last January, was set to join the small roster of well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...