Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven days after President Eisenhower proposed a one-year suspension of U.S. nuclear-weapons tests, Nikita Khrushchev accepted the U.S. terms: high-level political talks, beginning Oct. 31, on a foolproof world network of listening posts to detect any nuclear explosions...
...Earnest Discussion. The fateful U.S. decision was made by Dwight Eisenhower alone. But behind his personal decision lay weeks of earnest discussion between top-level Administration officials, each one expressing his fears, or his hopes, in the light of his particular governmental function. The calendar of one of the U.S.'s most soul-wrenching secret debates...
Spare the Rods. The two college-level films are being done entirely in animation. Observes Berkeley Chemist Joel Hildebrand, head of the American Chemical Society advisory committee that approves every frame of the films: "We've been very careful to avoid the Walt Disneyish type of film. There are no little fairies pushing things around." Neither are molecules represented-as they are in classroom models-by little balls held together by rods. Says Hildebrand: "We have taken out the rods and put in dotted lines to represent axes. That way nobody will mistake them for anything physical." Middleman...
...Domestic machine-tool orders for July slipped 8.6% below the June level to $22.2 million. Yet toolmakers noted increasing inquiries, thought follow-up orders in autumn would put them back on the rise...
...decline of less than 1% from $6,312,500,000 paid out in the same period of 1957, despite all the smoke and fire over reduced earnings. ¶ Department store sales for July climbed to 140% of the 1947-49 average, up from 133% in June. At the new level sales are only four points below the alltime record set a year ago this month. ¶ Steel production was scheduled to rise for the sixth consecutive week to 61.4% of capacity, reflecting an earlier-than-expected fall pickup in orders...