Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven by Stalin's policies to seek independence for the Chinese Communist Party. He won that independence, and maintained it in increasingly open opposition to Moscow; finally the time came when Moscow had to negotiate with a man it would have preferred to use as a mere instrument. Today, in his old age, Mao has become a full and equal member of the "collective leadership of world Communism," a man no longer to be suspected in the least of "separatist" or Titoist tendencies. Mao is the largest individual figure in world Communism, and overtops any single Russian leader...
...World Series' seemed to be asking a bit too much of the drummers, so Carrington made it 'competition.' The message was thereupon relayed to one drummer as 'The Giants beat the Redskins in the competition.' The old drummer practically split the lips of his instrument beating out the message, and we walked over to the other drummer to ask what he had heard. His answer: 'The crocodile got the better of the leopard.' In the Congo, where crocodiles come big and leopards have tawny skins, that seemed close enough. My last doubts vanished...
...that is what the legal world thought until Yale undertook the second revolution in the teaching of law. Under former Dean Hutchins and Professors Thurman Arnold and William O. Douglas, the "policy approach" was introduced in the 1920's and 1930's. Law became an instrument which the judge could adapt to certain philosophical or social ends. These men felt that it was insufficient to study cases only, without knowing the judge's own philosophical values. Thus Yale law students studied past legal decisions, but they also consciously strove to develop their own set of values, which were as important...
What is the solution to the traffic jam? CAAdministrator Frederick B. Lee, a crack pilot who during World War II literally wrote the military's book for instrument flying, thinks the answer lies in 1) better position finders on the ground and in the air, and 2) better communications between airports and pilots. By thus extending the range of the aerial police, traffic jams can be stopped before they develop. A basic need on the ground is long-range radar equipment, a high-cost item that only a small percentage of U.S. airports now has. CAA's proposal...
...Squadron of Experts." The big picture thereupon dissolved to the gun-sight view. With the oldtime exhilaration, ex-Brasshat Galland blew up two U.S. Marauders. Then "a hail of fire enveloped me. A Mustang had caught me napping. A sharp rap hit my right knee. The instrument panel . . . was shattered. The right engine was also hit. Its metal covering worked loose . . . and was partly carried away. Now the left engine was hit too. I could hardly hold...