Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current level of $25 million annually, the U.S. will shake up its program. First to be reviewed: the technical-assistance program, which employs 4,000 Bolivians, maintains 20,000 miles of road, gives agricultural help to thousands. A recent survey showed that half of the Bolivians had no idea that the U.S. was doing the helping...
...first five rounds. But in the sixth he walked into a staggering left-right combination. The champion began to bleed around the eyes. As early as the ninth round, he was beaten. His seconds asked politely if he was giving any thought to "retiring." Gamely the Kid rejected the idea, pawed the blood from his eyes for four more rounds. Finally, after the 13th, he retired, explained simply: "I just couldn't see." Manager Biddles' tune had changed in a year's time. "I wouldn't send him out to be murdered," he said, "champion...
...restrictions on visits to child patients are needlessly damaging, and that with a child under five, mother should be allowed to go into the hospital and stay-even if it means sleeping on a cot beside the child's crib. Britain's Ministry of Health accepted the idea and declared in a special report: "This is of great benefit to the child, and if the mother is allowed to play a full part in his care, she can be a help rather than a hindrance to the hospital staff...
Christofilos now works on his fusion reactor, which he calls the Astron, at super-secret Livermore Laboratory in the green hills southeast of Berkeley. His idea of trapping electrons in the earth's magnetic field grew out of Astron, which is designed to trap ionized particles in a magnetic field in a laboratory rather than on a global scale. Nick's paper proposing Project Argus, written in late 1957, was not published except in classified form, and not all scientists agree that it was the first such proposal. Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland is said...
...House of Louis Feder Inc., and Joseph-Fleischer & Co. (Fleischer will make the Sears toupees from imported hair) have climbed close to $1,000,000 each. Total U.S. sales are estimated at $15 million a year. Says Louis Feder, a wigger himself: "We have put across the idea that a man is not completely dressed unless he has hair...