Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOREIGN RELATIONS An Asia Policy Will Russia blunder into war? Probably not in Europe, where allied defense lines are already drawn and few power vacuums exist, said Tom Dewey last week. But in the Pacific, the Kremlin can still make the fatal miscalculation. Dewey's solution, arrived at during a two-month tour of the Pacific: "Start immediately to build a well-rounded and complete Pacific mutual-defense alliance...
...making citric acid by fermentation. When, in 1941, the Government asked Pfizer, Merck & Co., and E. R. Squibb to try to mass-produce penicillin, Pfizer was right at home; penicillin could be made only by fermentation. But the process was slow because the mold, which needs air to exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate of one unit to 1,000,000 units of broth. Says McKeen: "It was just about the amount of gold you find in sea water." Pfizer worked out a method to grow the penicillin all through...
...just published a book (I Am a Composer) in Paris. Excerpts: ¶ "I sincerely believe that a few years from now, music, as we know it, will have ceased to exist. . . Even today we can see what is happening. People no longer listen to 'music,' they go to watch the performance of a famous conductor or pianist." ¶ "The modern composer is a man who turns out a product that nobody wants. I would like to compare him to the manufacturer of old-fashioned hats, shoes and corsets, but with one little difference. The public doesn...
...specific academic requirements exist for the program. Some of the students haven't even completed grade school; a few have college degrees...
...morning while shaving, Wolcott Ferris, prosperous insurance broker, froze before his bathroom mirror as if he had seen a shrunken head. He had seen something worse: his shrunken self. "What are you missing?" he asked his blue-grey eyes. "Why the hell do you exist? Why do you go on living?" Why had life been picked clean to the bones short...