Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspection agreement. Moreover, the U.S., in recalculating the results of its underground shot in October 1958, has discovered that underground explosions below 20 kilotons (about Hiroshima size) cannot accurately be detected by known seismographic instruments (TIME, Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the U.S. has had to hold up development of "clean" (low-fallout) bombs and smaller thermonuclear weapons. Sample result: a delay in the smaller warhead for the second-generation Minuteman intercontinental missile...
...that has left Poland, once a substantial food exporter, hardly able to feed itself. To make matters worse, inflation is a major threat, largely because of higher bonuses and wages that factory chiefs have been allowed to grant on their own initiative. Bungling Warsaw planners pegged meat prices so low that workers, with extra money to spend, ate more and more. At the same time, farmers' profit margins on livestock were reduced to the point where incentive to raise animals was almost destroyed. In 1959's second quarter, meat consumption increased 14% while production slumped 6.3% below...
...policy since Fidel Castro's rise to power has been a high-minded try at tolerance of the inevitable anti-U.S. excesses of a sweeping revolution; the policy was exemplified in the appointment of friendly, low-keyed Career Ambassador Philip Bonsai. But a fortnight ago Castro falsely charged that a pamphlet-dropping plane from Florida had really loosed bombs over Havana (TIME, Nov. 2). With that premise, Castro proceeded furiously to whip up feeling against the U.S. Dropping some of its imperturbability, the U.S. last week made reply in a note stiff with such phrases as "serious concern...
Throughout the game. a character looking like an aging water boy strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But when he spoke, they spun to listen, and for good reason. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 8 in., 160 lbs.) Coach Floyd Burdette ("Ben") Schwartzwalder, 50, is the one man who has changed Syracuse from a perpetual Eastern patsy into a powerhouse that leads the nation in offense (36.4 points...
...about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says he: "If we are to preserve our free economy, that has to be expected, and it is exactly the right medicine to forestall inflation. After 20 years of abnormally low rates, present rates are in the area of normal rates...