Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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R.C.A.. first color TV sets have just started rolling off the production line, will go on sale this month. Price: $1,000 for a 15-in. receiver plus $149.50 for service (one year) and installation (minus antenna). R.C.A.'s sales estimates for the industry: 70,000 in 1954, 350,000 in 1955, 5,000,000 a year...
...Minus One: French Commanding Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
...attend its year-long series of conferences and convocations. But in spite of its international prestige, it has never lost its early sense that the city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial theme-"Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof-is wide as the world...
...with sword in hand, facing the ranks of the Continental Army. Here under the Elm, he legend asserts, he declared himself Commander-in-Chief. This is borne out by a diary describing that historical day. "Discovered" just in time for Cambridge's centennial, the diary depicts the whole episode, minus a few frills. But historians have since proved this account a forgery, written to document the celebration. Actual accounts paint a different picture of the day. The Continental troops, sick and ragged, were entrenched at the other end of Cambridge, unable to march. Washington himself makes no mention of taking...
Much of the work on the plan was undertaken as early as November, 1952. At this time, the basic ideas of the plan were set forth, minus most of the important details...