Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torture & Triumph. The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed out by the most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
Good Old Days. So, last week, began a modern-day "March on Washington," arranged by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to dramatize the plight of the nation's unemployed.* Actually, much of the impact had been taken away from the meeting by the highly encouraging employment figures for March, released only the day before by the Administration. They showed that unemployment fell by about 390.000 to 4,360,000, while employment climbed by 1,100,000 to 63.8 million. But that did not in the slightest diminish the decibel count of the 7,000 people (about half of them actually unemployed...
...after the first public outcry that the West had lost one of its stoutest men at an awkward moment. Adenauer's decision began to appear a wise recognition that he was no longer indispensable. West Germany was no longer just one indomitable man but a strong and prosperous nation of 52 million people...
...tutelage in foreign affairs unquestioningly. Because Gerstenmaier is ready to trade away Germany's NATO membership if it will buy reunification from the Russians, he is less likely to get the nomination. Erhard has never concealed that in his free-trader's eyes, the Adenauer-sponsored six-nation Common Market is too limited, and last week he told an audience of Ruhr industrialists that more "open-mindedness and flexibility" would be useful in conducting foreign policy. The test of Adenauer's present power may well be whether he is obliged to accept Erhard as Chancellor...
Buffer State. Over the centuries, the mountain-locked nation of Tibet has often been overrun by invaders-Mongols, Manchus and Gurkhas, but most often Chinese. Whenever China was strong, it would send a garrison to occupy Lhasa. Whenever China was weak Tibetans would drive the garrison out. In 1904, uneasy about Russian encroachments in central Asia, the British launched an expedition from India and captured Lhasa with little difficulty. To keep each other at arm's length, Britain and Czarist Russia agreed to make a buffer state of Tibet and signed the Convention of 1907 recognizing China...