Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summed up General Schriever in a remark that rescued space travel once and for all from the realm of science-fiction fantasy: "In the long haul our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving space superiority. Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles, but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy." In that effort, Schriever made it substantially clear, the U.S. was determined...
...restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays, few couturiers do much better than break even on their sales to individuals. On a $400 dress, Dior reckons on a profit of only $30 (manufacturers who plan to reproduce...
...Crimson will have to offset its field losses with running wins. Much will depend on the performances of Joel Landau and Joel Cohen in the hurdles, Landau and Sandy Dodge in the dash, and Dick Wharton, Bill Morris, Phil Williams, Pete Reider, Dave Norris, and Bill Thompson in the longer events...
...have come to believe that a liberal education does not mean the acquisition of information, but the molding of attitudes. And where we used to depend upon exposure to mold these attitudes, we are coming to realize that participation is a more effective way of inducing them...
...right to be informed. The rationale of CBS's action was to enforce their policy of news "analysis" rather than "editorializing," yet this distinction is almost so nebulous as to be non-existent. "Fairness" and "impartiality," as well as the power to choose which events should be covered, all depend on the judgment of the commentator. To deny him the right to express "opinions" is to negate the purpose of news "commentary" and to make them little more than extended newscasts. As Jack Gould put it in the Times, "Supposedly what emerges is an articulate and forceful middle...