Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their eyes glued to the skies, the monitors at the U.S. missile-tracking stations in the South Atlantic searched the darkness one night last week. Suddenly they gaped; far above, starbright and hell-hot, a thing-it looked like a meteor-plummeted through the stars of the heavens and then disappeared over the horizon. Hours later in Washington, U.S. spacemen announced the news: Big Joe, the funnel-shaped prototype of the vehicle that will carry the first U.S. man into space in 1961, had been shot aloft in a test and had been recovered intact. Had a man been inside...
...Chicago suburb of Markham looks like any of the thousands of bedroom communities that rim the cities of the nation: its lawns are well trimmed, its homes are split level or ranch, its streets neat and winding. To the 40O-home subdivision of Park Terrace in Markham last week drove a young, house-hunting couple. They cruised for a while, stopped off at the sales office, asked Sales Manager Milton Lewis to take them through the model homes. "Certainly," said Lewis. "Of course, you folks are aware that Park Terrace is a Negro development...
...night. Twenty miles away, outside the town of Nemo, another fire raged. Said one fire boss grimly: "If them two sons of bitches come together and start crowning [i.e., spreading among the treetops], it won't stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters...
...entwined are the destinies of all the world's nations in 1959 that a bold new initiative by one of the superpowers has something like the effect of a lucky shot on a pinball machine. Last week, as a consequence of Dwight Eisenhower's historic decision to invite Khrushchev to the U.S., lights were flashing and bells ringing all around the globe...
SCARCELY any country on earth is less fitted to serve as a pivotal point in the struggle against Communism than Laos, a land of blue mountains, green jungles and affably unambitious people. Roughly the size of Oregon, Laos is shaped like a pistol with the butt pressing against Red China and the barrel aimed at Cambodia. Statistics are foreign to the Laotian mind, and the population can only be guessed at; estimates range from 1,000,-ooo to 4,000,000. Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos...