Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army a prompt go-ahead to shoot its Jupiter-C into space while the Navy was still fumbling with its Vanguard. He ended the economy ban on overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress a reorganization plan that, on paper at least, took a long stride toward unified control of the Defense Department (TIME, April...
...twelfth of Harvard's undergraduates, describe their political temperament as "radical" --judging from the questionnaire--over a seventh support "full socialization of all industries," more than a fifth favor socialization of the medical profession, and nearly a third believe that the Federal government should own and operate all basic industries, such as steel and railroads. In a society that accepts such phrases as "free competition" and "private enterprise" as its conventional rhetoric, it is curious to find extensive support--even among students--for socialization and similar radical proposals...
Much the same third that favor basic socialization also support "immediate unilateral suspension of atomic tests" by the United States (hence the little green stickers on Vespa fenders: Halt Bomb Tests), and "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation...
...most of the basic questions concerning religious belief, there was little contrast between the men and women. There was nothing distinctive in the Radcliffe view of the nature of God, the role of organized religion, or the interpretation of scriptural statements...
...matter of religion: "Feel I must agree with mate on religion to be happy." "There are certain parts of Jewish life I want to have in my home--I think I'd enjoy life with a person who could share these moments and activities with me." "Sharing religion is basic to a marriage, I think...