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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look best in. Here on her first U.S. visit since 1955, Simonetta crossly jangled her charm bracelet at a New York Timeslady and cried: "All over the country I have seen what I have never seen before . . . Where is the three-quarter sleeve? Where is the lithe waistline, the close-fitting hipline? The shorter hemline? These are not being worn, although we presented them in the last collections!" But, after a careful survey of passing silhouettes, she did have a good word, too: "Last time I was here it was talk, talk, talk of diet. Evidently...
Hush little sibling, close your eyes...
Private capital, said the Vice President, is uniquely able to close the gap because, "in the old Roman phrase, 'it has no smell,' " i.e., it is not tainted with any ideology beyond the expectation of profit. Said Nixon: "It is not unreasonable to set as our goal doubling or tripling American investment abroad in the next ten years." To supplement the outflow of U.S. capital (current rate: $4 billion yearly), Nixon urged...
...means of boosting productivity, there was general agreement, even by delegates from socialist-minded nations, that private enterprise should and could shoulder an increasing share of the burden. The most dramatic evidence of renewed faith in free enterprise came from Reserve Bank of India Governor H. V. R. Iengar, close friend and adviser to Prime Minister Nehru. Disavowing the tepid brand of socialism long preached by Nehru, Iengar emphasized that India is looking to private capital and free enterprise to develop its resources and industrialize the nation...
...best bet is believed to be a "magnetic bottle": an arrangement of magnetic fields that will grab the electrically charged deuterium nuclei and force them to stay close together while an electric current heats them very hot. In practice, a magnetic bottle is some sort of glass tube, often doughnut-shaped, filled with rarefied deuterium. When electric current is shot through it in the proper way, a hot, thread-thin spark flickers briefly in the center. This is deuterium pinched together by magnetic force. It is many times hot enough to melt the glass of the tube, but it never...