Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finding a Vein. For them there is a continuous struggle for survival after the first few months, during which, like Marclan, most victims show no symptoms. No cure is known. Untreated, the disease is often fatal within ten years; even with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis...
Behind the well-starched prose of this memo, sent out last week by the U.S. Army's Adjutant General Robert Lee, lay the sleepless vigilance of the organization known for short as P.O.A.U., and for long as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. P.O.A.U. has been increasingly uneasy about what it views as an excessive growth of Roman Catholic influence in the armed forces (and elsewhere), specifically in the promotion of chaplains. But P.O.A.U.'s uneasiness mounted to anxiety when it caught wind of what seemed to its officials a movement to dedicate...
Newton's Rails. But the basic rules of space flight have been known for centuries. The Chinese, who invented rockets about 1200, did not theorize about them, but Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion, published in 1687, not only explained the principle that makes rockets fly but gave the essential sailing directions for space ships of the future. When a U.S. Atlas or an even bigger (for the present) Soviet space rocket roars into the sky. it runs on rails devised by the ill-tempered Sir Isaac, who sat in his English garden nearly 300 years...
...will fly through space, hazards or no hazards. The Russians are known to be planning to put a man up in a satellite. Astronomer Alexander A. Mikhailov, director of Pulkovo Observatory near Leningrad, told a TIME correspondent last week that they are also planning a manned voyage to the moon. The biggest problem, he said, is safe return, and they do not intend to risk a man until they are sure of getting him back alive...
Economists have long known that the gross national product, the nation's No. 1 economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production sags, it understates the drop, since prices tend to hold up. To counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have...