Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro's Cuba includes ten airfields and at least two captured DC-3s (as well as some light planes). From secret bases, probably in Central America and Florida, planes ferry in arms. Castro now has some heavy machine guns, bazookas. 20-mm. and 75-mm. recoilless rifles. He has a network of two dozen radio transmitters...
...explanation of this behavior is based on the relativistic principle that objects moving at extremely high speed become foreshortened in the direction of their motion. Particles that are essentially spheres at low speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...
...tomatoes and cucumbers. Soon he found fragments of carved marble, which led him step by step toward the buried ruins of Diana's shrine. First to be found was the ceremonial "tomb" of Diana. Last June the overturned but well-preserved columns of the temple itself came to light. This month the diggers unearthed a magnificent stoa (portico) which can easily be restored. Many of the carved stones were in remarkably good condition because the floods of the River Erissinos (now dry) had covered them with silt...
...flexible new rules also scrap old regulations that tied architects' hands, kept architectural design from changing to meet new patterns of living. Builders no longer are bound by minimum-lot sizes and rigid house-placement rules, may vary developments as long as light, ventilation and outdoor-activity space are adequate. Once-banned inside kitchens are now allowed, saving the outer or window walls for living and sleeping space. So are new, low-cost bedsitting or kitchen-dining combinations. Also new: architects may choose from a wide variety of products as long as they meet careful performance tests...
...Judge Weinfeld held that the proposed merger would eliminate substantial competition between Bethlehem and Youngstown, depriving steel consumers of alternate sources of supply. To the companies' arguments that they could not compete with U.S. Steel, Weinfeld replied that this was "not persuasive in the light of their prior activities, their financial resources, their growth and demonstrated capacity to meet the challenge of a constantly growing economy." Both companies, he noted, had bettered their position in the industry in the last five years: Bethlehem increased its capacity by 30.7%, Youngstown by 31.4%. Thus, both are financially able to expand further...