Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rely not on high salaries-top wages for an engineer are $700 a month-but on the pioneer spirit, a generous leave policy (up to one week in four in Algiers) and high living standards. Says a Hassi Messaoud executive: "Provided the mail is regular and the food is good, you can get Frenchmen to accomplish the impossible...
...become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think of himself as the Thai Charles de Gaulle, but with Oriental variation he had also about him a good deal of Manhattan's late effervescent Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
...more to do than absorb energy from the sun. Purposely programed for the most eccentric orbit ever achieved by an earth satellite, it settled almost exactly into its planned path, first reached its record apogee some 26,400 miles straight out into space from the Cape of Good Hope, its perigee a narrow 157 miles over Singapore. With so great a range of altitude, it will pierce both of the newly discovered Van Allen radiation belts (TIME. May 12, 1958 et seq.), collect comprehensive data on phenomena ranging from the earth's ionosphere to cosmic dust...
...hull and the submerged half of a whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like a fighter strip as the nation's 14 fastest hydroplanes roared off in the top race of the year: the Gold...
...smashing the language barrier forever. Already Latin Americans are trying to launch similar schools in New York City, Buffalo, and Elizabeth, NJ. Last week Tijerina himself was hard at work stumping Texas to sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have done...