Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturing process; it got a 1,200% increase. The company also hoped to save $500 a week; it now saves about $1,000 a week on the process. Now Topp's Micro-Path division, headed by Thomas F. Johns, is out showing the machine to U.S. industry. North American Aviation wants four of the machines; Hughes Aircraft is interested in using the machine on a 20-ft. lathe to drill and rout its Falcon missile. There may be other uses beyond machine tools; Du Pont is investigating to see if the controls can be used to run chemical-mixing...
...dictum that "there are no second acts in American lives" was true at least of the man who wrote it, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The dazzled darling of the champagne revels of the '20s woke to the hungover desolation of the '30s. He found his talent depleted, his nerves unstrung, his wife Zelda mad, and he faced a literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across...
Henry Adams had the arrogance of his ignorance. To William James he railed at the failure of man to acquire "a single vital fact worth knowing." He was obsessed with the American fallacy that life was some kind of inside story that an enterprising philosopher-reporter could crack wide open: "We may some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and immortality...
Ballets: U.S.A. The American scene as expressed in dance form by Choreographer Jerome Robbins. In PITTSBURGH...
...Pasternak (1) 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (3) 4. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (4) 5. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (5) 6. Anatomy of Murder, Traver (6) 7. Exodus, Uris 8. The Mountain Is Young, Han Suyin (9) 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (7) 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote (10) NONFICTION 1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery 4. Inside Russia Today, Gunther (6) 5. On My Own, Roosevelt (4) 6. The Affluent Society, Galbraith...