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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during his Capitol Hill years by isolationist speeches of fellow Republicans. "If the Republican Party is going to survive," he warned in 1942, "it must be represented by as many individuals with a worldwide outlook as the party can find. Abandonment of isolationism is the Republican Party's main issue." Spotting Dwight Eisenhower as a man with the worldwide outlook that the G.O.P. needed, Herter visited him in Europe in 1951 and urged him to run. He had the courage to give Ike some blunt advice: "If you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft...
...other monasteries. That night, dressed in the robe of a poor monk and without his customary glasses, the Dalai Lama left the palace as if taking a stroll, but he was shadowed by bodyguards. His mother and brother departed even earlier, by a different route, and rendezvoused with the main party outside the city...
...Maria de Carvalho, 18, during Brazil's carnival in lazy, colonial Salvador, capital of Bahia state. Disguised as an Arabian sheik, he was tossing ice cubes and confetti, brawling in nightclubs, when he spotted eye-filling (Miss Bahia, 1958) Ana Maria right on Salvador's main stem. Baby stopped, whistled, shouted, "Hey, beautiful!" But Ana Maria, blue-blooded daughter of a wealthy Bahian cattle rancher, industrialist and political potentate, sniffed: "Impertinent and presumptuous...
...they are expected to perform all sorts of complicated maneuvers. The Air Force's Discoverer II, whose re-entry capsule came to earth embarrassingly close to northern Russia last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was as full of busy gadgets as a watch is full of works. The main purpose of its gadgetry was the seemingly simple task of keeping the satellite horizontal in relation to the surface of the earth below -a necessary step toward effective photographic reconnaissance...
...paddle-wheel satellite is designed to make the most of the sun's energy. Its main body will be a 28-in. sphere covered with a thin metal skin. Out of it will protrude four paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose...