Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wiegand's last war, but far from the end of his career. In 1945, he flashed a perceptive alarm to the West about the "Red Russian tidal flood . . . The war has loosened upon Europe the most powerful imperialistic force since Napoleon-totalitarian, Communist Soviet Russia." Eyesight failing, he roved restlessly about his old international haunts, a derring-do journalist, lost in the geopolitical maze of another era. In 1959, from New Delhi, he sent up another rocket: "Soviet Russia and Red China reportedly have agreed in Peiping to divide the globe north of the Equator into two areas...
Earth & Sun. It was not always so. The academy likes to trace its lineage back three centuries to the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes-named for an animal then believed to have especially keen eyesight), probably the world's oldest scientific society. But in those days, relations between the Papacy and science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn has suddenly become conscious of his advanced age. He is 79 and his eyesight is failing badly. Mister Sam has to have his mail read to him, and he sometimes fails to recognize friends' faces (he always recognizes their voices). Close Rayburn associates report that he may be considering the possibility that this is his last term in Congress. The hottest candidates for the speakership if and when Mister Sam retires: Missouri's Richard Boiling, 44, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, 52, and Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, 51. Seldom mentioned is Democratic Floor Leader...
Kept out of military service by dim eyesight (20/100 in one eye, 20/200 in the other). Heller spent the war years in the Treasury Department in Washington, working on the massive wartime increases in taxes. After the war, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. But he sallied out at various times to serve as a financial adviser to U.S. Military Governor Lucius Clay in occupied Germany (1947-48), financial adviser to the U.N., a member of the Treasury team that worked out Korean war tax increases, fiscal adviser to Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman (Secretary...
...Artistry, commerce and the public's eyesight will best be served" through dubbing, Crowther asserts. Artistry, no; eyesight, no; commerce, doubtful. Can anyone seriously believe that the excision of the speech from the original actors' performances and the substitution of that of a bunch of foreigners outside the supervision of the original director will enhance the artistic result? Are the exact words of the original script, the flavor of the original language, the inflection of the spoken lines, and the timbre of the performers' voices wholly negligible factors...