Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segre gated schools, in Florida as though he favors it, and in Minnesota as though he had not made up his mind." Down & Up. While Adlai Stevenson was descending from the high road he had planned to travel before he accepted the Democratic nomination, Estes Kefauver moved up a level. Confronted by the new Stevenson attack, he replied that he had never used the word "bosses," but has spoken only of Stevenson's support among "powerful political leaders." He drawled softly: "I have had only kind words to say about my competitors, and so far as I could control...
Throttled Rocket. Most rocket motors are all-or-nothing performers. They give good performance at one thrust level only. The Bell X-1 (first airplane to pass the speed of sound) was pushed by a cluster of four small rockets, and it gained a measure of control because the pilot could shut some of them off. The Bell X-2 (already under secret test) has a two-rocket Curtiss-Wright power plant, can vary its thrust, by methods undisclosed, over a considerable range...
...spot the budding genius in time? Ideally, said Weir, it should be done at the secondary level. But this is often impossible because, of 22 or so schools in the U.S. that train teachers to handle ex ceptional children, all but two schools are interested in training them for "the exceptionally handicapped, rather than the exceptionally bright." Added Caltech's Frederick Lindvall: "There's a stigma attached to being called a brain. The athletic department is much more successful than we are at singling out its exceptional students...
Despite the high level, few economists or businessmen are seriously alarmed. Though inventories currently total 20% of the U.S. output of goods and services, most experts think they are needed to supply an expanding economy. In 1939 about $20 billion worth of inventories was adequate; in 1956 the U.S. needs four times as much to make sure that booming consumer demand is satisfied. With fore casts of a gross national product of $403 billion for 1956 (up $16 billion from 1955), inventories will creep still higher to keep pace with future sales. Moreover, because of increased distribution efficiency...
...industries its rate of expansion is actually faster than the rate in the U.S. By 1960 the Soviet Union will be producing 68 million tons of steel yearly. Though only about half the U.S. output in 1955, the Russian production will then be nearly 2½ times its 1955 level...