Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force engineers, electronics contractors and subcontractors are building monster radar screens, each half again as long as a football field, tough enough to stand against 185-knot gales. The screens-four at Thule, three at Clear-will detect Communist missiles along a direct line of sight tangential to the earth after the missiles have been airborne for five minutes of their 30-or-so-minute nights toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth 150-ft. domes-three at Thule, two at Clear-will track the incoming missiles, feed data on speed, course, etc. into computers to determine at what...
Last month Paul Tillich, 72, received a special kind of present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic theologians are recognizing Tillich as the most challenging Protestant mind of his time. "The sustained brilliance of Tillich is amazing," writes U.S. Theologian Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, "and his incredibly wide knowledge matches his brilliance. Any witness of the Protestant reality looks for someone to give a unified meaning...
...others). Khrushchev conceded that Adenauer would prefer NATO to a German confederation. But by so doing, said Atheist Khrushchev piously, Catholic Adenauer is rejecting "both the Christian and atheist" road to peace: "To live in friendship and to do everything to prevent the rule of evil on earth." And since Adenauer is an old man, he had best mend his ways fast, or, "according to Christian belief," he will soon "be severely judged by the heavenly court." Nikita's point: all West Germans with their eye on the main chance should start placing hedging bets with Moscow right...
Besides having one of the richest diets and the most varied menus on earth, Americans daily consume a haphazard assortment of an estimated 400 chemicals added to foods as preservatives, coloring agents, antioxidants, mold inhibitors, bleaches, thickeners, thinners, emulsifiers and moisteners. This week, to take both the hap and the hazard out of the addilives, a new law (signed by President Eisenhower six months ago; becomes effective. Its burden: before processors may add any chemical to food, its safety must be proved to the satisfaction of the Food & Drug Administration...
...estate of an American sculptress. The party came upon a gleaming white block of Italian marble, and Maugham exclaimed to the hostess, "That's the best thing you've ever done!" "But," the artist protested, "I haven't even started; it just came over from Italy. What on earth did you think it was?" "The Immaculate Conception," Maugham replied...