Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOTHING TO DO WITH HAMLET. Instead it is the basic issue of principle which has brought about the longest national steel strike in U.S. history and which last week caused the President of the U.S. to do some head-bumping. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Berlin agreement was an agreement on the issue of deadline only; none of the critical basic problems about the future of Berlin or Germany were even touched upon, much less settled. But the removal of the deadline did help gain time, and both President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter feel strongly that time works in the West's favor. As Communist leaders are forced by their own internal conditions to pay more attention to consumer demands, as more of their citizens receive the mind-opening benefits of education, the likelihood becomes increasingly great for a liberalized system...
Students at Moscow University are part of an elite and they can look forward to good careers. They all get stipends, not enough for luxurious lives, but adequate for basic living expenses. "It is too easy and dangerous," Azrael says, "to overemphasize the signs of student discontent...
...establish a 30-man permanent committee on educational policy. Based on the assumption that the student body is "the largest unused poll of creativity and intelligence in the Harvard Community" the new plan envisions a representative body of students that would work closely with the Administration and discuss "basic problems of educational philosophy" in the College...
...just 15 weeks Cole and his crew designed a V-8 that cut the weight of the basic Chevy engine from 550 Ibs. to 506 Ibs., but increased power from 123 h.p. to 162 h.p. "We did not build a test model because there was not time to experiment," Cole recalls. "That's how crazy and confident we were." The engine proved to have bugs. But it also had zip, and when the bugs were eliminated, the zip gave Chevy sales a push...