Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fired automatically at incoming missiles, once detected. But in BMEWS, in the general sense, the U.S. will get a welcome new weapon for the missile gap until more advanced systems of early-warning-and-missile defense become available. Among the wild-blue-yonder possibilities: 1) observation of the Communist land mass from space satellites in the 1960s (see SCIENCE); 2) creation of anti-missile radiation belts-"death rays"-that might make sectors of sky impassable to missiles by the 1970s-1980s, much as they have in space fiction for years...
...British and the Egyptians finally settled their accounts on the 1956 Suez war. For six weeks they had haggled over 700 acres of land near Alexandria owned by Joseph Smouha, 83-year-old Iraqi-born Jew known as the wealthiest British subject in Egypt (TIME. March 2). Solution of the Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually...
...then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives-but not one of them was white...
...flurry of excited advertisements in the Brazil Herald glowed of fabulous land bargains in the wilds of the Mato Grosso plateau. Over a Rio television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when...
Widows First. Cage set up quarters in a lavish suite at Sāo Paulo's Jaraguà Hotel, decided that all the Mato Grosso needed for a land boom was the old backslapping hard sell. He fixed his selling price at $2 to $5 an acre. What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha...