Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made mistakes owing to the drunkenness of victory and the conceit resulting from its great achievements. It has wrongly assessed its own powers, exaggerated its own importance and given insufficient attention to the roles played by other national forces." Furthermore, the Communist paper itself has "dealt in an inflammatory manner with certain events." Just so everybody would understand its previous "wrong assessment," the Central Committee now assured everyone that "the party condemns all draggings, torture, pillage...
...admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
...getting Japanese, who have crashed the U.S. market with everything from cameras to transistors to hibachi charcoal braziers, last week were briskly redesigning their little cars for a full-scale commercial assault. The cars lead a broader invasion of the U.S. market by all manner of Japanese heavy industrial goods. This year Japanese exports to the U.S. will exceed $800 million (v. $229 million in 1952); close to $200 million will be in precision and heavy manufactured goods, directly competitive with products in which the U.S. specializes. Throughout the world, Japanese exports of heavy goods-turbines to Brazil, electric train...
...some cheer in the decisions. They showed a real change in U.S. policy to conform to the new competitive facts. What made the decisions different was not so much what the U.S. granted-BOAC, Air France and Air India were entitled to the routes under reciprocal exchanges-as the manner of giving. France had formally denounced its bilateral air route agreement with the U.S. 13 months ago, insisted on getting "double trackage" rights, i.e., the right to serve any U.S. city where a U.S. carrier originates a flight for France. The State Department flatly refused...
Nightmare Feeling. Nowhere in the world is medicine yet practiced in this manner. And automation experts insist that it never will be-quite. But at half a dozen U.S. medical and cybernetic research centers, scores of human computers are at work trying to bring the card-shuffling business machines and the electronic computer into more areas of medicine. At System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking...