Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slender, wavy-haired and handsome, Lopez Mateos will have especial appear in next July's election, when women vote for a President for the first time. He lives with his wife and 15-year-old daughter in a still unfinished modern house with a $13,600 mortgage on it. He is up at 5 a.m. -"I never sleep more than five hours a night"-for a breakfast of black coffee, meat and fruit, drives himself to work in his Fiat. Because he has stuck so closely to his office, he is not well known to most Mexicans. Not until...
...step down from the dream fuels are the boron-containing fuels that have already grown big enough to stir up flurries on Wall Street (see BUSINESS). Boron itself gives much energy, and some of its compounds hold a lot of high-energy hydrogen in easy-to-handle form. Modern boron fuels are stable, reliable and have high (classified) specific impulses. One of them is now being manufactured in considerable quantity by Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. at Niagara Falls. Gallery Chemical Co., near Pittsburgh, is making its HiCal, a boron-carbon-hydrogen combination...
...agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady rise throughout the year; only four predicted a continuous decline. Said Leonard Smith, commercial research manager for U.S. Rubber Co.: "This is one of those modern recessions where no one feels much pain. I am convinced that it's not going to be very deep...
...half-fashioned logic and firm disregard for the English language. The merit of The Outsider was that it brought fresh insight to such diverse figures as Shaw and Hemingway, Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot, by casting them in the role of questing near-metaphysicians at the bedside of modern man. The tragic dilemma, as Wilson developed it, was that the Outsider had outdistanced the comforting illusions of everyday society while falling short of the luminous serenity...
Marshal of Artillery S. Barentsev wrote in Pravda that the successful production of ICBM's and atomic weapons had changed the whole character of modern warfare...