Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shadow Ran Fast, Sands...
Like his father, Edgar rushes in where the timid fear to tread, following the company's slogan-"Find a need, and fill it." Optimism is the cornerstone of the Kaiser philosophy, and Edgar argues with folksy persuasion that the world's needs are bound to rise so fast that he would be foolish not to try to meet them...
...hausen's organization has no legal weapons against transgressors, simply passes along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals, thus enabling Italian firms to copy the world's new drugs as fast as they are invented. Several big nations, such as India, Pakistan, Argentina and Chile, remain outside the system, some of them figuring that they invent too little to profit from it. Nor does the pact protect artistic or literary copyrights, which come under the Bern Convention-to which the Russians...
...strain on his tether will rise to many tons. Assorted and intricate schemes have been suggested for the avoidance of this dangerous difficulty. But the day may come when an astronaut will break his tether and drift off into endless space because a comrade has reeled him in too fast...
Still, landing on firm ground, instead of the warm oceans where U.S. astronauts dunk themselves, has its advantages. The Russians may do it primarily because they possess vast areas of flat and almost uninhabited territory, but they also prefer it. A spacecraft that descends too fast will hit the ground with little more impact than if it hits water. And survival on solid ground is a lesser problem than after a water landing. There is no chance that the men will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with...