Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of his family gathered, stayed close at hand: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, his sister, the State Department's Berlin expert; Allen Welsh Dulles, his brother, head of the Central Intelligence Agency; sons John, a mining engineer, and Avery, a Jesuit priest...
Mountain Ape-Men. More famed are the "abominable snowmen" or "yetis" of the Himalaya and central Asia. Heuvelmans is almost sure that they exist, and he marshals elaborate evidence to prove it. There may be two kinds-a monstrous, hairy creature 8 ft. tall, and a smaller one no bigger than a man. The monks of one Tibetan monastery display to travelers the scalp of an alleged snowman, and Heuvelmans argues that its hair pattern, much like a gorilla's, proves it is not a fake made out of some animal's skin. The remains of giant...
...whole. Each day, it spews 57 million copies of 7,686 papers across the land. Identical in size-18½ in. by 23½ in., four to six pages-all are of such a numbing editorial sameness that E. A. Lazebnik, deputy director of propaganda for the party Central Committee in the Ukraine, was moved in 1956 to complain with singular bluntness: "If one were to conceal the names of newspapers, it would be almost impossible to tell which is which...
...higher education in the next decade? This week Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris, a skilled man with a budget, did some sophisticated figuring for the Central Association of College and University Business Officers' meeting at Purdue University...
Change Is Decay. To the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews, the world was an oyster, water below, water above (it seeped through the upper dome as rain), with the earth as snug and central as a pearl. But between the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C., the Greeks reached certain conclusions that were to be ignored for the next 2,000 years, e.g., that the earth rotated on its axis, that the sun was the center of the universe...