Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behind sandbag barricades and rifle-toting guards, Haiti's strong-willed President Francois Duvalier lay last week in his white palace, seriously ill of a heart attack. Out of fear that the truth would embolden opposition elements to start trouble, his aides stuck to a diagnosis of "grippe," but only succeeded in starting dangerous rumors-that Duvalier was paralyzed, was already dead, or had left the country. Superstitious blacks in the Port-au-Prince slums whispered that the President's ouangas (voodoo charms) had lost their power...
...Behind the National Geographic's familiar, fussy, yellow-bordered cover-essentially unchanged since 1910-lies a publishing success formula as improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At first their magazine was filled with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found...
...destruction. The curtain rises on the interior of a spaceship dominated by the towering electronic brain, a mechanism so advanced that it is nearly human. Ranged in front of it as ghostlike silhouettes, the passengers chant a lament for the planet Doris (actually the Earth) they just left behind...
...economy was moving along so briskly last week that some businessmen were beginning to worry that there might be too much of a boom. Warned Manhattan's First National City Bank: "With the problems of recession behind them, businessmen will now need to be alert to the problems of prosperity-pressures on prices, temptation toward excesses of inventories or credit use, and the eroding of the efficiencies and cost reductions introduced during the recession...
After lagging behind Ford in April, Chevrolet moved up to first place in May, with sales estimated at 153,000 against 135,300 for Ford. Plymouth moved up to third place (42,500 cars), ahead of Pontiac (35,300), which still kept a commanding lead over the middle-price field. In the luxury field, Cadillac reported a five-month total of 65,413-the best January-May in the company's 57-year history. American Motors expected to turn out its 300,000th Rambler one day this week, far in excess of its total production in any previous model...