Word: developed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's elite schools to carry on the nation's business while governments rise and fall, Armand is the engineer whose imaginative direction has restored French railways to a place among Europe's best. As president of a prospecting commission, he sparked the French drive to develop Sahara oil. Appointed one of the "Three Wise Men" in 1955 to look into Western Europe's energy needs, he has led the campaign for European development of atomic power. Louis Armand arguing for Euratom, says Paris' L'Express, "is Saint Bernard preaching at Vezelay on Easter...
...practice is designed so the basic plays and patterns become mechanical. I try to develop a conditioned reflex in the boys so they won't have to take even a split second to think in a given situation. They'll just react automatically." With such a system, Schaus has turned out an extraordinarily well-balanced team, e.g., all five starters regularly score in the double figures. The balance was neatly illustrated at week's end when Coach Schaus's boys had such an easy time drubbing George Washington University, 93-66 (for their 12th straight) that...
Diplomacy's Shortcomings. Finally, McElroy announced his intention to take outer-space research and development out of the hands of the separate services. He would, he said, set up an Advanced Research Projects Agency, staffed by the top scientific talent of all three services, to develop space projects to the point where they can be turned back to the services for operational use. At this infringement on their autonomy the services began grumbling, and Neil McElroy, going slow for once, has not yet named an ARPA head. "I am taking my time on this one." says he. "I consider...
...stage of London's Wigmore Hall-her grey hair knotted in a bun, her handsome, heavy-jawed face lit with flashes of the passion she once sang into her great roles. She circled the stage gesturing, commenting, coaxing. She was trying, she told the singers, to help them develop individuality, not to turn them into "a dozen other Lehmanns" ("I have always enough trouble with this...
Cowboys & Oil. Fox intends either to build up the whole area through its Fox Realty Corp. or to develop 25% of it and sell off the rest to another developer for a capital gain. The moviemaker, which has still to raise the cash for the project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate...