Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian student leader who recently toured China, characterized the mainland Chinese as humans reduced to the level of "inmates in a zoo," with the exceptions that they were required to work harder and were ruled by an ever-present loudspeaker. He felt that the regimentation had resulted in an unhappy splitting of families in the massive commune program, but had successfully created a picture of "American imperialists" in Chinese eyes...
...rather than "Attic" sort of collection. Nor shall I absolve the Busch from the equally random method of installation accorded the exhibition. The installation of three sculptures in one case, one on top of the other, has never been the dream of the artgoer, and the use of different levels is handled poorly--without any strong accents on the bottom level of the main gallery, the collection is allowed to dribble off to nowhere. I'll add one good note about the exhibition's installation: two incredibly large and mildly good Van Goyens have been sent over to the Fogg...
...current would be found flowing under the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction. In 1957 the Atlantis and the British oceanographic ship Discovery II went looking for this current. Their tool was an ingenious buoy invented by British Oceanographer John C. Swallow, which sinks slowly until it reaches a level where the sea water, compressed by the weight of water above it, has the same density as the buoy. There, the Swallow buoy hangs and drifts with the deep-down water, broadcasting strong pings of ultrasound that can be heard by listening ships on the surface. Dumped into the Gulf...
...vast gulf between scientists and nonscientists is often a subject of jokes. But English Novelist Charles Percy Snow is no longer amused. Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he worked as a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The Conscience of the Rich, Homecoming); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor; he is now a director of the English Electric Co. and scientific adviser to the British Civil Service Commission. "The degree...
...Railroad (TIME, June 22), which fell deeper into the red in May with a $517,039 loss, its fifth consecutive monthly loss and $150,000 greater than its loss in recession May 1958. To give the railroads hope for even better earnings, revenue freight car-loadings reached their highest level in 20 months, topped the 1958 period by 15.2%, with 723,738 cars loaded in the latest week...