Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belated reply to the Soviets' Sputnik challenge. The difference between the two marked the steady acceleration of the U.S. space program. Explorer I, still riding in space, is a 30.8-lb. cylinder that reaches an apogee of 1,600 miles. Explorer VI, weighing 142 Ibs., is more complex and reaches higher than anything ever orbited around the earth-26,400 miles, with ellipses to a low perigee of 157 miles. Its aluminum skin encases scores of miniaturized scientific instruments that are already reporting facts on space (see SCIENCE) never before revealed...
With Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the Boston Summer Playhouse brings us their finest production to date. Originally presented on Broadway in 1955 as the major part of a double bill, this powerful story about the complex intrafamilial relationships in a Brooklyn waterfront household provides a jolting theatrical experience...
Nature of the Beast. Research must find answers to three complex questions: 1) What is cancer and what are its causes? 2) How can it best be detected, treated and cured? 3) How can it be prevented...
Actually, unpredictable Harry Golden is too complex to serve well as anyone's folk hero, and not all of his views endear him to liberals. Segregation of public facilities is evil, he says, but "private preference" is different. "When Dr. Bunche complains because he can't get into the West Side Tennis Club, that just obscures the issue. The Jews are just as bad. They want to get into the country club. Abe Ribicoff has gotten to be governor of Connecticut, and they worry about the country club...
Since the spring of 1957, law-enforcement agencies have been trying to unravel the complex dealings of Fancy Financier Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, who promoted his way to control of 40 companies, mainly through top posts at Swan-Finch Oil Corp. and Doeskin Products, Inc. Last week a New York County grand jury indicted Birrell on 69 counts of grand larceny, alleged that he stole stock worth $14 million from the two companies...