Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until recently, most such talent searches had been too little and too late. There is no infallible universal testing device to measure potential, and even where useful devices exist, they are seldom applied before the student's attitude has been irrevocably...
...support for the Olympic team is a worthy goal, because international relations can be improved by friendly athletic conpetition. But for the government to step in financially would be a mistake because it would overemphasize the importance of winning and only add to the tensions that are bound to exist in the Games
Science fiction teems with spaceships, but in real life they do not exist. No man-carrying craft has even approached space-yet. Now, after a two-year study, the Office of Naval Research and Douglas Aircraft Co. (builder of the supersonic Skyrocket) have decided that an "inhabited" rocket airplane can be built that will soar to 750,000 ft. (140 miles) and land on the earth safely. It will not be a spaceship in the strictest sense, but the air that it will traverse at the top of its flight will be as thin as a laboratory vacuum...
...Because of our belief that the state should exist for the benefit of the individual and not the individual for the benefit of the state, we uphold the basic right of peoples to governments of their own choice . . . During the past ten and more years 600 million men and women in nearly a score of lands have, with our support and assistance, attained nationhood. Many millions more are being helped surely and steadily towards self-government. Thus, the reality and effectiveness of what we have done is a proof of our sincerity. Further, we know that political independence cannot alone...
...physics' most exciting recent discoveries is the antiproton. It resembles an ordinary proton (present in the nuclei of all atoms), except that its electric charge is negative instead of positive. There may be (but probably are not) places in the universe where antiprotons can exist permanently, but on earth they are short-lived. As soon as one of them touches the nucleus of an ordinary atom, it is annihilated. Both its own matter and the matter of a proton or neutron in the nucleus turn into a flash of energy...