Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 16th century's age of discovery, maps of the world were exciting reading for up-to-the-minute Europeans. They changed every few years as new lands were discovered and old lands settled into their proper places. Map viewers gradually learned what latitude and longitude meant, and that a straight line on a map (Mercator's projection) is not always the shortest distance between two places...
...null century is a new age of discovery, this time of space, and the world's educated public is learning a new geography of orbits and gravitational fields, a new jargon of escape velocities and soft landings. Space is not the surface of a sphere as Columbus' ocean was. It is three-dimensional, its lands are in rapid motion, and its snuggest harbors are more dangerous than the earth's most hostile coast. Its ships are finned and flame-tailed, guided by gyroscopes and coded signals...
...age's ironies is that the exploration of space is inescapably tangled up with the momentous struggle called the cold war. Some of the talented scientists helping to shape U.S. space policy in Washington seem to think that by labeling outer space a "civilian" domain they can keep it free of the contaminating struggle. For a down-to-earth look at this wistful illusion and its dangers, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, On Pain of Extinction...
With jubilation and bloody revenge, Cuba's new government stepped off toward its uncharted, uncertain future. Rebel Fidel Castro came to Havana, the age-old smile of the conqueror on his face. He pushed through screaming Havana mobs to Camp Columbia, stronghold of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army. The march of los barbudos, the bearded rebels who toppled Batista after two dogged years of guerrilla warfare, was complete...
...Matanzas, rebels grabbed one Juliana Muñoz Garcia, 42, the mother of two sons. The charge: that for $15 a week she had been a Batista informer, betraying at least two teen-age rebels to killer cops. When she screamed that she had only pointed out the house where the boys lived, the rebels hissed "Chivata!" (little goat that bleats, i.e., stool pigeon). Terrified, she awaited trial...