Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost every university student is subsidized, and the freshly graduated physicist can count on making at least $200 a month, plus another $100 for research, which is good money in the land of the proletariat. The government thinks nothing of building whole "science cities," equipped modern villas, clubs, cinemas and stadiums for scientists. When an American asked Physicist Vladimir Vekser how much his huge accelerator at Dubna cost, Veksler replied simply: "I don't know. To get the money, all we had to say was that you had one." If the Soviet scientist lives in an ideological cage...
...After the attacks," said Frondizi, "there were oil slicks on the surface of the sea as when a submarine is damaged." Sonar gear aboard the Argentine ships established that the unidentified sub was a "high-speed" modern craft, i.e., U.S., British or Russian...
...meet "the increasing demand for a better knowledge of the Middle East," the University will this summer offer intensive training in the modern languages of the area and additional courses on the peoples and their government...
Carlos Chavez, prominent Mexican composer, will deliver the annual Charles Eliot Norton lectures next year. His talks will probably center around modern Mexican music...
...following is the first of a series of articles taken from the Winston Pooh lectures on Myth and Mystery in Modern American Prose delivered last year at Wheat Forest College in Illinois. Mr. Pooh was internationally recognized for his three volume treatise on The Totem-Pole in American Indian Culture...