Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvesters of the U.S.'s scandalous farm subsidy program, none have harvested more profitably than a bulky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), hearty Kansan named Ray Hugh Garvey. Wichita's Garvey, 66, is a businessman of wide and wealth-producing interests: he controls a 500-well oil company (with a 27½% depletion allowance on federal corporate income taxes), a loo-house-a-year building firm (most with FHA-insured mortgages), a fuel-distribution company selling to farmers (who often use gas unstintingly because of a 2½-per-gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from...
...None of these matters will bring rioters to the streets, or cause signs to be pasted on the doors of Mem Church--they are too subtle for that. Besides, it takes a charitable figure such as Pogo or Lamont Dupont to unite the loyalties of undergraduates. But perhaps this spring has been merely a trouble-free idyll before the clash of forces and decisions--it's been too perfect...
...soil. This plan should certainly appeal to the West: militarily, Germany would be willing and able to defend itself; politically and economically, the extremely hopeful post-war developments of the Franco-German rapprochement and the European Common Market could be preserved; Germany, legally forbidden to enter NATO, would be none-the less committed in principle to the Western point-of-view...
Galveston's huge radar domes, one for scanning the sky to detect enemy targets, the other for locking onto them and tracking them, at first presented another hazard: a spillover of X rays. Several men were found to have been overexposed before this fact was detected, but none have shown any ill effects. The danger was eliminated by installing extra lead shielding for the klystron tubes in the transmitters. Future tubes will be made with the shielding built...
...sure none of my friends in New York expected this when I left five years ago," he said last week in his still Manhattan-tinted accent as he puffed a Dunhill cigarette. But he saw nothing odd about an American occupying a bastion of Britain. Said Anglican Simpson: "The United States Government doesn't seem to mind if I pray for Queen Elizabeth...