Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 11 review of Gavin's War and Peace in the Space Age: seems the "brains" entrusted to America's defense never listen to the truth...
...Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired Army Lieut. General James M. Gavin in his book War and Peace in the Space Age (TIME, Aug. 11): "We are in second place militarily and in second place in the exploration of space." The syndrome had one of its most remarkable manifestations last fortnight, when Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy arose on the Senate floor to say: "Once the Soviets...
...nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nautilus first slid into the sea four years ago. That revolution reached its highest point only last fortnight, when the nuclear submarine Skate poked up in a North Pole ice gap within atom-armed Polaris range of the Soviet Union (TIME, Aug. 25). In its atomic-age revolution, the submarine is no longer a mere marauder against ocean-borne commerce; it is a potential offensive weapons carrier of the first strategic importance...
Residenztheater," said Rococo Theater Expert Dr. Giinther Schone, director of Munich's Theater Museum. "I am afraid that the new gold leaf will shine too brightly and the walls will lack dust, the patina of age." But after two years of detailed restoration, the interior of Munich's rococo Residenztheater last week looked very much like the original-right down to the patina of age...
...still represent less than 3% of the gross national product, hardly a harbinger of runaway inflation. The bothersome rise in the wage-price spiral will be slowed by several deflationary factors: widespread overcapacity in basic industries, a squeeze on profit margins, no recurrence of a labor shortage as working-age population rises. What the bank expects is a relatively stable growth pattern over the next five years, with prices rising a modest 1% or 2% each year. Any further acceleration in prices could be crimped politically by Government controls or higher taxes. "Thus," concludes Economist Reierson, "unless the U.S. adopts...