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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year. France and most other NATO nations are even farther behind. Of the 50 divisions scheduled to be ready in Western Europe during 1952, only 24 at best will be combat-ready. Fifteen more are half-formed but too short of equipment to form an effective reserve; the rest exist only on paper. As for the goal of 100 divisions by 1954-the year when NATO strategists estimate that the Communists will have their biggest edge in troops, arms and A-bombs deployable against Europe-it seemed to be fading away...
...revolution in U.S. medicine. In stead of writing a shotgun formula requiring half a dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles are now filled with one or another of the long line of new "wonder drugs": the sulfas, the antibiotics, the hormones...
...British Critic Sir Kenneth Clark maintains that Sutherland is not really an abstractionist, on the curious ground that he "imitates objects with the most literal reality; only these objects do not usually exist...
...surrealists just didn't understand. Says Dali: "Someone like me, who pretended to be a true madman, living and organized . . . was not allowed to exist." He was drummed out of the surrealist circle...
...along; there were only 323 members in England and America in 1933, when Penrose took over as senior vice president for North America. He formed sectional committees, started a go-get-'em campaign to sign up industrialists, educators, bankers and businessmen, and the membership soared. Few ties still exist with the British organization. (British Newcomeners, who number less than 500, all serious technical men, look somewhat askance at the U.S. operation as a mere marching & chowder club...