Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcements and the brief press dispatches that were the communiques in the war against armed-forces segregation -the Unknown War, as Nichols came to know it. Nichols became fascinated in the subject, and his interest led to previously secret files, to military bases, to scores of interviews. His book, Breakthrough on the Color Front (Random House; $3.50), published this week, is the most complete report to date on a war already in the mop-up stage...
...great mountaineers-drive up a jagged icefall of 3,000 ft. Then on to the face of Lhotse, the second witch, a moon-cold, 4,000-ft. cheek of ice and blackish stones. Ten days of chopping here, with every breath a ton to lift, and then a breakthrough-two tiny figures bobbing far above through the ice glare, like spots before the eyes-to the summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker, tensed like the climbers for so long against so many obstacles, pushes forward out of his seat to be with the first assault team, Bourdillon and Evans...
...thin line. Police Captain John Engler and Lieut. Les Dolan moved forward to meet the marchers. "Calm down, men," said Engler. "We don't want any trouble here." But A.F.L. men, marching 30 abreast, slogged on, pushing the police before them. Half a dozen marchers tried for a breakthrough. The first man rushed head down through the police line, was caught by a cop's uppercut, sent sprawling to the ground. Four policemen pummeled him with fists and clubs and carried him, bleeding and blaspheming, from the scene. The others were dealt with in the same swift, rough...
...spent four years studying figure painting and portraiture at Manhattan's Art Students League-and wishing he were out of doors. He has painted open-air pictures ever since. During World War II. Pleissner painted pictures of Aleutian bases for the Air Force and, later, of the Normandy breakthrough for LIFE, and developed the wanderlust that goads him today. Most of the watercolors in this week's show were first sketched on a recent tour of France...
...unemployed for six to 18 months. Another New-Fair Dealer, Economist Leon Keyserling, describes a recession as a "short-run downturn of moderate or even large proportions." The Commerce Department's Under Secretary Walter Williams talks darkly of the time when "soft spots merge and a breakthrough is imminent." Treasury's Deputy Secretary Randolph Burgess is precise. A recession exists, says he, only when gross national product falls at least 5% (which would mean a drop from the current $371 billion to $352 billion...