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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underscored by Vice President Nixon in a major policy speech that went well beyond any previous statement of foreign economic objectives by the Eisenhower Administration. For the black-tied delegates who live by business and were resigned to political oratory, Nixon's brass-tacks address at the main banquet of the conference was a rare surprise. Said Nixon: "The private initiative, the private responsibility and private capital which you represent are the motors of economic progress. The economic growth which you generate is vital to the future of the whole free world. In many nations, the pattern of economic...
...into thermonuclear physics because the interiors of the stars are convenient test tubes for observing what happens at very high temperatures. Stars need no magnetic bottle; their gases are held together by their own gravitation. Earth-side gravitation is too feeble for this, so Spitzer's main job is to devise a leakproof magnetic bottle that can pinch-hit for the gravitation of the brighter stars...
Late in the afternoon, scientists at Britain's Windscale plant, the main British source of plutonium, saw danger signals on a temperature control instrument. A hurried second glance told them what had happened. One of the two nuclear reactors had been closed down all day; deep in the massive structure of graphite blocks, one or more canisters of uranium had grown red hot and burst open. Apparently the uranium, heated by its fierce radioactivity, was burning in an oldfashioned, chemical way by combining with oxygen in the air that is blown past to cool...
Space & Meaning. At midcentury, American art has reached a sort of delta. The leading painters follow a dozen different channels, and each naturally insists that his particular channel is the main one. Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...
...especially deplored the lack of advance in the field of research and development. He cited three main reasons for this lack of progress...