Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Startling Growth. For 1957 he ventured no crystal-gazing beyond a cautious prediction that "the nation's overall prosperity will be extended into the months ahead." But the Economic Report's special appendix on U.S. population trends peered two decades ahead, and what it saw was a period of startling growth that could well spur a major business expansion. Back in 1946, when U.S. population stood at 140 million, experts predicted that it would expand to 153 million in 1960, reach an ultimate peak of 165 million in 1990 or thereabouts. In fact, the population passed...
...world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing-for St. Moritz' crystal-clear air has 18% less oxygen than sea-level air, forces visitors to breathe deeper and faster, bringing color to pallid cheeks...
Shaking out the slush from our shoes (we refuse to admit defeat by wearing boots), we pondered the 19th century's foolish sentimentality and unrealism. Snow's truer character lay revealed in Ukichiro Nakaya's authoritative "Snow Crystals." Besides the run-of-the-mill hexagonal-plane dendritic form crystals, there are spatial dendritic, pyramid and columnar, bullet, needle and graupel types, to mention a handful. Of especial interest was the Tsuzumi type, so named because of its resemblance to a Tsuzumi, a Japanese tom-tom. It is a hard crystal to describe, but picture a Tsuzumi and you nearly have...
...that keeps on the move, automatically changing direction when its "feelers" touch an object; Bedico of Germany has a helicopter ($28.95) that is directed by a two-levered control box; Science Electronics, Inc. has an Erec-Tronic Transistor Set ($14.95) that gives young engineers a choice of nine different crystal and transistor radio circuits that can be built without soldering or tools...
Before leaving Washington to convalesce at Key West from his operation for intestinal cancer, mending Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (Princeton, '08) paid off a $1 bet to State Department Counselor Douglas MacArthur II (Yale, '32). The football score on which Dulles' crystal ball was cloudy: Yale, 42, Princeton, 20 (see SPORT...