Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticipated over 150,000 men, but only 60,000 actually enlisted. At that time, only teen-agers 17-18 1/2 were eligible to enroll in the RFA program, and a seven-and-a-half year Ready Reserve committment kept the enlistment rate down (other possible objections--parental opposition, low pay of $50 a month). A person in the Ready Reserve must attend 48 drill meetings a year, and a two week summer training period every summer for as long as he is a member...
...Low Interest. In London, Albert Loria, a senior partner in a banking firm, was fined ?3 for defacing an outdated ticket to avoid paying a threepenny subway fare...
...Meade Alcorn would be kidding himself and his titular boss in the White House if he failed to hurry home with the message that the Eisenhower stock was at a new low with most of the party, that the oldtime conservatives -who never put much stock in Ike anyway -were ready, willing and thirsting to take control if something didn't happen fast...
...occasion to deal a final blow to his disgraced foes -the "antiparty group" composed of Malenkov, Bulganin. Molotov, Shepilov and Kaganovich. In the usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem -low agricultural productivity -on the antiparty men, thus satisfying two desires at once. But the rest of the world was likely to center its interest in the Congress on the report that brash, quick-witted Anastas Mikoyan had brought back from his U.S. "vacation...
Another control problem is how to supply small bursts of power to alter the course of a rocket deep in space, to land it softly on the moon or swing it around Mars. Fuel systems now in use do not operate efficiently at low throttle, and once the fuel is turned off they cannot be re-ignited easily. Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in contact. A feed mechanism (using...