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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Random House Dictionary of the English Language...
...delivery system was the real mystery. Some skeptics suggested that Peking was stretching the truth and had simply lashed the device to a radio-controlled drone. Even in its claim, Peking was deliberately vague. The Chinese ideograms for a rocket translate as "fire arrow," but Peking's English translator rendered them as "guided missile." In Western terms, a guided missile is an anachronism: one of those winged, jet-propelled vehicles, like the Snark and the Navaho, that American aerospace companies were working on before the ballistic missiles like Minuteman and Titan were developed in the late 1950s. Some Western...
...embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny Stark, she also keeps up a rigorous schedule of daily lessons in diction, breathing, modern dancing, physical culture and English conversation. So far, she has mastered "hello," "goodbye," and "I love...
Steadily gaining circulation, Jeune Afrique is now operating in the black. In the near future the news weekly plans to start pleading the cause of the third world in an English edition. It takes its role very seriously. "The underdeveloped world has been bullied a great deal in the past," says Ben Yahmed. "It is still being bullied. But Seraphina, and perhaps even Jeune Afrique, are the instruments of its revenge...
...suffer psychological shocks when their high school A's suddenly turn to C's or worse. Caltech's Feynman tries to ease the pain by wryly reminding freshmen that inevitably "half of every one of Caltech's classes is below the class average." Yet M.I.T. English Professor Barry Spacks finds his students refreshing because they "exhibit none of the pretenses and gamesmanship of places like Harvard -if they don't know who T. S. Eliot is they...