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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Businessman E. L. Cord talked rarely and acted boldly; as a result, out of ships, airplanes, automobiles and real estate, Cord built a financial empire. Starting in 1956, he also got his feet wet in Nevada politics (as a state senator), and enjoyed the sensation. By last spring, as a result, a new empire was shaping up. A Cord machine dominated the state Democratic convention, paved the path for Errett Lobban Cord to become governor (TIME...
...Caltech. "We need creative, responsible scientists and engineers," explains young (43), pipe-smoking President Joseph B. Platt, head of the physics department and onetime (1949-51) chief research physicist for the Atomic Energy Commission. "These men will need solid training in the basic sciences on which technology is built. They can learn the applications of these basics on the job. The ability to judge values will be just as important to them as the techniques of their trades. The humanities develop this kind of judgment...
...scientists who backed the AEC view that fallout from nuclear-weapon testing is not critically dangerous. Last year he backed continued U.S. nuclear testing in a report to President Eisenhower that H-bombs can be made 96% "cleaner." The Radiation Laboratory flourished under his direction, built a bevatron for advanced particle research. Lawrence became chiefly an organizer, a humorous, vigorous prodder who steamed around Berkeley encouraging younger men with-as nuclear physicists put it-"all rods...
IRON CURTAIN AIRLINES are moving into Middle East. Czech State Airline started regular Prague-Cairo flights with Russian-built TU- 104 jets...
...Bergen county area: its department store sales for the first seven months raced 48% ahead of a year ago. Jersey's bounce showed what happens when shopping centers move into suburban communities. The Passaic-Hudson-Bergen surge is due mostly to two highwayside shopping centers that have been built in the past year, less than a mile apart...