Word: frosts
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Ability to Destroy. The line's most scholarly and most influential advocate is George Frost Kennan, 53, longtime student of the Soviet Union, top Truman State Department policy planner, author of the postwar containment policy, onetime Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1952), and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University...
...spiderweb gantry at the U.S Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. stood Navy Test Vehicle 3, a tall, three-stage rocket, the sun sparkling off a rime of frost crystals (from liquid oxygen fuel) on its silver and jet-black skin. Around TV-3, tired Navy and civilian scientists and technicians worked carefully toward the end of an hours-long count-down-air frame, propulsion, nose cone, guidance-while liquid oxygen vented off in trailing fume. "We'll be pleased if it does go into orbit," said one of the TV3 missilemen. "We will...
...Robert Frost (Caedmon) proves a happy exception to the rule that poets cannot read their own works as well as actors. Frost's cracked voice often sounds like that of the first progenitor of mankind, and his lucid verse sings of subjects appropriate to that early time - the whisper of a scythe in grass, the stumbling of a spindle-legged calf, the rains of autumn...
Kaiser's announcement completed the diversified House plans to use the Ford grant. Four writers and poets, Eliot, Joan Bennett, Robert Frost '01 and Charles P. Snow have accepted invitation to speak and to visit at Houses this year...
OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...