Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These views on the trend of the literature departments are accepted by most history people and rejected by representatives of the English department. Bate feels that the explanation of History and Lit's difficulties is "far more complex" than Handlin would indicate. He points out that most of the courses offered by the English department are based on periods of time and that there are very few that are really unhistorical...
...most meaningful news was that the Air Force was getting ready this week to fire an intermediate range Thor from a brand-new base perched on a jagged coastal saucer 168 miles northwest of Los Angeles-Strategic Air Command's Vandenberg Air Force Base. The West Coast missile complex is designed to take up where Cape Canaveral leaves off; i.e., primarily to shoot operational missiles and train crews to handle them. One Western advantage : satellites can be flung thence into polar orbits (see diagram) without hazard to populated areas...
...mushrooming of the West Coast missile complex has brought a combination bonanza and headache to the nearby town of Lompoc, once noted for its peaceful setting amid acres of seed farms. Population has jumped from 7,000 to 9,000 in two years, school enrollment has all but doubled, land values have gone from $2,000 to $8,000 an acre. But even though its streets are jammed with airmen, construction workers and even visiting R.A.F. trainees, Lompoc, remembering the fabulous buildups at Camp Cooke during past wars-and the abrupt shutdowns that followed-is alone in the world...
...stirred up the Berlin crisis, world attention focused on whether the vital but vulnerable Western outpost could and would hold out. The answer was yes. But by this week it was clearer than ever that the prime intent of Khrushchev's maneuvers is to reopen the far more complex problem of divided Germany and its future...
Adams saw two major obstacles to a College course in Christian culture. First, he doubted whether a unitary Christian heritage exists, since the dialogue of opposing viewpoints tends to give any heritage a complex character...