Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the President's office went the order to begin. Legislation was prepared, calling for civilian control over the U.S. space program except in specific areas of military endeavor. Scientific space-administration would, in the plan, be handled by a new agency comprised of members, of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and other top civilian figures, under NACA Director Hugh L. Dryden. For a starter, the Defense Department laid aside $8,000,000 and started plans for the first series of lunar probes. The Army will undertake one, perhaps two, using modified Jupiter rockets; the Air Force, with...
...department store in Manhattan looked like a morgue; other New York City stores reported 25% and 33% losses in business. "It definitely hurt unemployment," said a Labor Department expert. "It slowed up construction and farming." Wrote Washington Pundit David Lawrence: "People just don't go downtown shopping or begin to look at the new cars in the salesroom when they can't even get back and forth from work...
Needed: Money & Skills. Ireland is rolling out the plush green carpet because her few young, overprotected industries do not begin to supply home needs for manufactured goods. Imports last year rose to $512 million, exports stood at $368 million, and Ireland had to battle an overall trade imbalance of $144 million...
...that, it is a pretty exciting movie. Faulkner is as hard to kill as a Mississippi water moccasin, and his energy coils and snaps and hisses in the hundred distortions of the story. To begin with, the young man of the "broad, flat face [with] eyes the color of stagnant water" has been transformed by Hollywood into a dreamy-looking cinemactor named Paul Newman-but Newman's performance as Ben Quick, before the script blunts it, is as mean and keen as a cackle-edge scythe. And Eula Varner, she of the "kaleidoscopic convolution of mammalian ellipses," is divided...
...etching lines, MacLeish gets them onto the platform, which turns out to be "heaven" in a play about Job that is regularly performed there. They find the masks the regular actors use, and turn themselves into God (Mr. Zuss) and Old Nick himself. The familiar words of the Bible begin to issue from their mouths. "Whence comest thou?" asks God. "From going to and fro in the earth," Satan replies, "and from walking up and down in it . . ." But with a roar, Nickles wrenches off his Satan mask and stares at it. "Those eyes see ... They see the world. They...