Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as Secretary Dulles is confident of the ultimate triumph of free nations, so Dwight Eisenhower is sure that the best way to bulwark the world's security is to divert atomic production toward peaceful uses-just as fast as the Russians make it safe to do so. Last week Ike's drive went forward on three fronts...
Pockets & Baubles. Fast disappearing, like Hollywood's old mask, are other symbols of the city's callowness. Its taxpayers spend more per capita than any other major city for art centers, museums. Its big but scattered pockets of industry (current annual output: $6 billion) and topflight universities have attracted one of the nation's best pools of technical and scientific talent...
Silverstein has apparently spared no expense in achieving a stunning and fast-paced audio-visual spectacle, such as delighted the court of Louis XIV for whom it was created. Not only do we have live musicians, but we also have livestock, not to mention a whole harem of scantily clad Turkish dancers. And it would be hard to imagine a more lavish set of costumes than William D. Roberts has designed...
Strummed Zither. This novel is the last of a fast-moving, often hilarious trilogy (The Revolt of Gunner Asch, TIME, March 5, 1956; Forward, Gunner Asch! TIME, Oct. 29) that carries its hero from his home town in Germany to the depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order...
King's Watchdog. Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...