Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City or Campus? In London, U.S. Delegate Arthur H. Vandenberg, who figured that the UNO committee had brought all its troubles on itself, rumbled: "Any suggestion that this organization needs anything like 45 square miles of high-priced area for its headquarters is fabulous and fantastic." Instead of spending up to $70,000,000 on land and buildings, why not settle for something the size of "a comfortable college campus...
...picked, the graduates of the school will be the generals, admirals and ministers of tomorrow-the Marshalls, Kings, Arnolds, Eisenhowers and ambassadors of decades to come. If the hopes of the founders are fulfilled, future U.S. leaders will understand the process of "political relations" from A to Z-instead of A to M for one group and N to Z for another...
...crown company's job is to keep Canada's peacetime forces equipped, from key munitions plants, with the latest in arms-and to make sure that civilian plants (autos, refrigerators, etc.) are ready to convert to war production "within a matter of weeks instead of months or years...
Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham had undergone, while conscious, two serious operations for dangerous blood vessel conditions in his legs. Due to the nature of his illness, scopolamine, the "truth drug," was given instead of an anesthetic. While the surgeon's knife cut into his flesh, Psychiatrist Wertham enthusiastically dictated to a hovering stenographer a stream-of-consciousness description of his mental processes...
...miniature set is a descendant of the famous proximity fuse-which was a complete transmitter-receiver in the nose of a 5-inch shell. Part of the secret is the dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils...