Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the missilemen get the headlines, hypnotize the comic books and plan the nation's pushbutton defenses, a sizable band of Air Force planners are quietly at work developing that oldfashioned, tried and true device, the manned airplane. By their reckoning, the nation will need the manned bomber through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Their promising candidate to succeed today's B-52 bombers: the B70 Valkyrie, an airplane that makes Buck Rogers' spaceship look like a model...
Every fall, as delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...
...Khyber Pass, the traditional invasion route into India from the north. U.S. technicians are also working on a huge international airport at Kandahar and have raised dams, like those in the Helmand Valley, to control Afghanistan's seasonal rivers. But, although it is carefully geared to the nation's long-range needs, most U.S. aid is invisible to the average Afghan. A quiet program of teacher training cannot compete with a skyscraping silo; a gift of wheat is less evident than a fleet of delivery trucks...
...orbit around the earth. If the rocket failed, there was speculation that Red China might explode an Abomb, also borrowed from the Russians. One way or another, Red China this week plans to overawe its Asian neighbors and to serve notice on the West that it is a nation with the ambitions, if not the substance, of a first-rank power...
...weeks ago, Villeda Morales joined Tegucigalpa Archbishop Emilio Morales Roque in dedicating the nation to both the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary-making his the first government anywhere to take the two pledges simultaneously.* Since then, a task force of more than 100 priests has traveled the jungles of southern Honduras on a "Holy Mission": bringing the sacraments to a neglected people...