Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education. Conant fed it instead and raised it to be one of the nation's best. What evolved was a rare understanding of public schools, capped by this year's bestselling The American High School Today...
...Mikhail Lomonosov, painted resplendent white with the earth encircled by a satellite gleaming proudly on her bow. Much bigger (5,960 tons) than most Western research ships, she carries a complement of 131, of whom 71 are scientists. She can stay at sea for four months instead of the five weeks that is average for U.S. vessels. Her equipment is lavish, e.g., six deep-sea winches instead of the customary single one. U.S. experts who looked her over agreed that she could do almost any kind of oceanographic work, and the Russians have seven ships in her class or larger...
...WORKERS. Most can hold out another month without pain. Said Cleveland Banker Robert Mazanek: "The steelworkers' way of life today includes a strike every couple of years, and they save for it." Many strikers own houses, are borrowing against them instead of carving into their savings. In some steel towns, only 25% of the strikers applied for free surplus food, and only half of those bothered to pick up their allotments. But other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers...
Many RCA pros bet that steady John Burns would wilt in the brightly lit world of entertainment. Instead, Burns outshone the lights. He boosted RCA's non-entertainment business by more than 30%, directed the company to new areas and products. Under Burns, RCA brought out its stereo tape-cartridge, the first successful one in the industry. Burns moved RCA strongly into circuitry, controls and computers. RCA has developed the first medium-sized, all-transistor computer, hopes to find a big market in paper-clogged Wall Street. Burns took over RCA's money-losing color-TV project...
...Director Ingmar Bergman, whose last two exports to the U.S.. Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, won hosannas in the art houses. Like them, The Magician pleases the eye and agitates the mind. But drifting with its phantasms is no easy matter, and many a moviegoer is likely, instead, to drift right out of the theater...