Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For at least two generations, Europeans have seen that the U.S. is the greatest economic success story in history. But the men in charge of Europe's economic destinies long clung to the comfortable notion that the U.S. owes her prosperity not so much to superior economic techniques as...
Most spectacular IGY operations will be attempts by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to launch research satellites loaded with instruments to observe the earth, the high atmosphere and influences from space. But other programs are hardly less glamorous. Eleven nations have planned or set up stations on the hostile Antarctic...
The pilot has little to do. He tells the 67 the position of the take-off point (in latitude and longitude, from his chart) and the course to his objective. Then he flies the airplane so that the course-error needle reads zero. It will take him any place in...
Light on the Dark Continent
A hawklike man with an ascetic face, Behn worked in an eyrie high in the tower of the company's Manhattan headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on...