Word: keys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were his uniform buttons and a key-filled pants pocket, which lay scattered along the gutter in the next block...
When he needed help to consolidate his coup d'état last year, Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem trustingly relied on the local Communists. Soon they controlled the press, the state radio and government censorship, key propaganda posts where they set to work creating the legend of the revolutionary hero, the Sole Leader. Friends tried to warn the Sole Leader that he was being had, but it took the shocking evidence of the Red-led killing and burning at Kirkuk (TIME, Aug. 3) and Mosul to convince Kassem that the Communists were out to divide, not to unite...
Tepee is the brainchild of young (33) Physicist William John Thaler (pronounced Thayler) of the Office of Naval Research. Thaler's primary field is nuclear weapons effects. But two years ago, he had a sudden notion that certain characteristics of the behavior of radio waves might be the key to a simple and reliable long-range detection system. Since both the ionosphere and the surface of the earth will deflect radio signals, a transmitter can angle its beam upward and the broad waves will carom back and forth between ground and sky as they proceed to circle the earth...
...key: private gifts, which will make up some 21% of the total cost of higher education in 1969. If gifts flow as freely in the next decade as they do now, the council reported, the U.S. "can and will pay the big bills that are beginning to fall due . . . The nation possesses the means and will provide the support...
...Variations. The key to National's success is Price's head-on approach to both his problems and those of the U.S. homeowner. A creative, hard-driving businessman, Price has transformed the prefab from a poor cousin into a respectable member of the housing family. To rid the prefab of the boxy, cheap look and boring sameness that once plagued it, he has hired top architects to give his houses style, turns out four basic models in 600 different variations ranging from a three-bedroom $7.900 home to a $150,000 custom-built one. Price also has another...