Word: globe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the globe the diplomatic consequences of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks snowballed. Cautiously, with many a hedge and continuing mutual suspicion, the Big Two pushed ahead last week with a historic attempt to change the "balance of terror" stalemate between East and West...
Last week the American Council on Education made an angry, 100-page attack on U.S. "diploma mills," which have run a carefree con game around the globe for more than a century. Trouble is that the mills are blossoming as never before. At least 200 crooked schools in 37 states, the council reported, are raking in $75 million from 750,000 victims a year. California alone may have 100 such schools. A top West German investigator of academic frauds used to get 2,000 complaints annually about U.S. diploma mills. Now he gets 6,000, and calls the mills...
...bold new initiative by one of the superpowers has something like the effect of a lucky shot on a pinball machine. Last week, as a consequence of Dwight Eisenhower's historic decision to invite Khrushchev to the U.S., lights were flashing and bells ringing all around the globe...
...thinks. On black-fly-infested tundra 175 miles above Dawson City, Chance No. 1, the first gas-oil well in Canada near the Arctic Circle, blew in with a roar. The discovery was made by Western Minerals Co., which belongs to Calgary Lawyer-Oilman Eric Harvie. Gushed the Toronto Globe and Mail: "A landmark in northern history." Sixty-one years after it struck gold, the Yukon had struck black gold...
...wouldn't the globe-girdling radio waves also bounce off the trail of ionized gases left by a high-altitude rocket or the cloud of ionized gases created by a nuclear explosion? Then, if there were even a slight difference in the returning echo patterns-and if receivers could be made sensitive enough to detect the difference -monitoring oscilloscopes could display telltale evidence of what the waves had encountered on their travels. Since these radio waves bounce around the earth, the new method would overcome the limitation of radar, whose line-of-sight waves travel in straight lines, thus...