Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream towards his professed atheism. Witty, skeptical, man-intoxicated, Camus may never take the final leap of religious faith, but he is already one of the richest intellectual assets of the Western world, if only for his power of negative thinking and his restless...
Controlled hydrogen fusion−the key to cheap, abundant energy−is still miles away but it is getting closer. After a two-day conference at Princeton, N.J. last week, U.S. and British atomic officials made the guarded announcement that several different approaches to the fusion problem have "for some months been yielding substantial numbers of neutrons . . ." These neutrons, the announcement explained, may come from the energy-yielding fusion of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) nuclei. If the scientists can prove that they do, an important step will have been taken toward controlled fusion...
...Indians have taken the short end of a lumpy score three times this year, coming no closer to victory than a draw with Penn. Yet the varsity will have to work its tight, short-passing attack on what will probably be a rather sticky field, and without the support of fullback Chris Provensen, who injured his back at the beginning of the week and is expected to be inactive this afternoon...
...truth was that no paratrooper had entered the girls' locker room, none had come closer than the non-transparent doors leading to the locker room. But there was method in Orval's mendacity: Little Rock opinion was plainly turning against him. A Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray...
CHRYSLER CORP. will move assembly lines closer to markets to cut rising transport costs. No. 3 automaker will build 3,500-man plant about 20 miles southwest of St. Louis, planp to have it operating in 1959 to replace two 30-year-old plants in Evansville, Ind. Shift gives Chrysler better national spread; other major plants are in Delaware, Detroit, Los Angeles...