Word: mays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers. But the mass of Germans remain doubtful and suspicious; a relapse in West Germany's economic health, or even its failure to improve, may incite bitter resentment and political collapse...
...watch is 48-year-old Karl Arnold, president of Bonn's Bundesrat (Upper House), a hard-hitting Catholic trade-union leader who frequently acts as spokesman for the workers in his native Ruhr. No friend of Adenauer's, whom he considers too conservative, Arnold may some day be his rival for party leadership...
Three Skyrockets have been built. One has cracked up; the remaining two have been used as flying laboratories in the hands of two redoubtable old men of the air: the Navy's Captain William Virginius Davis, 47, and Douglas' test pilot, Gene May, who is 45 and a grandfather...
...fears that other mosquito species, including those that carry malaria and yellow fever, may adapt themselves too, as house flies in some places already have. But the department is not discouraged. Other powerful insecticides (e.g., the gamma isomer of benzene hexachloride) can probably take over the job of defeated DDT - at least for a while...
Judging by what happened in Washington, it may well break the 2,500,000 attendance record set by last year's traveling exhibition of masterpieces from the Berlin Museum. The opening day's crush made even Manhattan's gum-cracking Daily News sit up and take notice...