Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week the bulb-nosed shape of Her Majesty's Telegraph Ship Monarch, world's largest cable-laying vessel, rode slowly into Random Sound off Clarenville on the east coast of Newfoundland and began a new era in communications. After 30 years of planning, seven months of steaming, Monarch had paid out of her massive hold 4,900 miles of copper-cored, steel-armored, polyethylene-insulated 1¾-in. cable, and with the splice at Clarenville, completed the first underwater telephone cable linking America and Europe. Now, for the first time in history, voices could...
...center of the Big Noise was Harry Truman, thriving on the greatest helping of political attention he has received since upsetting Tom Dewey for the presidency in 1948. He was in Chicago less than three hours before he began cutting into the buttery era of good feeling with a sharp knife. Then, with all his influence as ex-statesman and master politico, he plumped for New York's Governor Averell Harriman for the presidential nomination, gave his ex-presidential word that Harriman's experience could best serve the party and the nation. He spurned Front Runner Adlai Stevenson...
Picked for the Job. Harry Truman's appearance has been carefully timed. His role will be vital because, in the era of moderation, a lot of steam has gone out of the Democratic Party. To the party of the common man, an Illinois squire and a New York millionaire have presented themselves as candidates, and the squire has won the lead. In the party that thrives on its never-say-die struggles for power, Estes Kefauver withdrew in the name of "unity." While they approve of moderation, most good Democrats hunger for that old spirit...
Twelve years ago, the U.S. launched the most elaborate experiment in veteran legislation in all history. Instead of bonuses, it offered its veterans an education. Last week that experiment passed a milestone, and an era ended as the G.I. bill ran out for the men and women veterans of World War II. Assessing those twelve years, and counting the cost ($14.5 billion), educators agreed that the experiment had paid off beyond all expectations...
...education was a privilege, and not just something father paid for. "They had men's heads on men's shoulders," says Acting President Frank Bailey of Ohio's Kenyon College. Adds Harvard's Director of Financial Aid John Monro: "These fellows knocked out the playboy era of American colleges. They set a pace that is still with us-and it is here to stay...