Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowadays, puffing his pipe and peering through thick-rimmed glasses, Betancourt is a picture of stability, calm, reason. But much of the old leftist is still there. He announced last week that although present oil concessions to foreign interests are safe, Venezuela will grant no more concessions. He promised to form a government company for further oil development. Moreover, 50-50 is on the way out: "I could not say that 50-50 should be converted to 75-25, but this matter should be the object of serious studies by technicians." He will doubtless renew-with less disruptive speed...
...clear, calm night at Cape Canaveral. The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets mounted on its nose. At twelve seconds after 12:45 a.m., almost exactly on schedule, Juno II took off. It climbed loudly but smoothly, arching slightly north of east. For about three minutes the first-stage rocket burned brightly, diminishing slowly with distance. Then its power shut off, and the upper stages coasted flameless for 55 seconds. About 110 miles up and 160 miles...
Compared to all the hot talk, the opinions of incoming N.A.M. President Stanley C. Hope, 65, onetime president of Esso Standard Oil Co., were calm and restrained. A native of Springfield, Mass., Hope was president of an oil-equipment company before joining Esso, after his retirement last July joined SoundScriber-Corp. of New Haven, Conn, as president -on a three-day-a-week basis...
...nearly 50 years, during which most of his country and the world became a graveyard, the poet continued to write-and one of the things that shaped his vision was the contrast between the graves and his youth's calm summer landscape, the eternal tension between life and death. In Doctor Zhivago, one of this century's remarkable novels, Boris Pasternak carried that theme to its climax. With this embattled book he restored to the world the image of what Russia has long been, despite violence, madness and corruption -a preacher to the nations on the text...
...brief moment hung in the calm...