Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEHIND lay the rolling cornfields -^ of Austria's Burgenland province. Ahead was the Hungarian border, where watchtowers still stand and electrified wire keeps passportless citizens from leaving. Waved past the border gate, the bus braked to a stop in front of the customs house that marks the Hungarian town of Hegeyshalom. Out stepped 45 inquisitive Americans-businessmen, civic leaders, journalists-about to start on an eleven-day journey through five Eastern European capitals...
...chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing and his law doctorate, and got a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary without taking a single course in theology. In 1952, Bishop Horace Donegan offered him the long-vacant post of dean of St. John the Divine Cathedral...
...making a soft landing on the moon and in taking close-up pictures of the moon and Mars. At the same time, such speculative M.I.T. thinkers as Physicist Charles Townes, who worked out principles that led to thet maser and laser, and Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, whose theories helped lay the foundations of automation, make M.I.T. much more than a producer of management specialists. Ironically, both schools have also contributed to Red China's nuclear missile capability by training its missile expert, Tsien Hsue-shen (see THE WORLD), who earned his M.A. at M.I.T. and his Ph.D. at Caltech, where...
Partly for that reason, earnings are unlikely to expand quite so fast next year. When the full effects of tight money, suspension of the 7% investment tax credit-and possibly a corporate tax increase-appear on the balance sheets, says Humble Oil Economist Kenneth Lay, "pressure on profit margins will become apparent...
Commendably, the book never tries to glamorize the war. The pictures of Hiroshima, the faces of Hitler and Goebbels, the stacks of dead at the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, are reminder enough that it was a war in which compassion and decency lay among the victims...