Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astor to Oscilloscope. New York's modernized old (1904) Astor Hotel reminded Old Soldier Eisenhower of more leisurely times. "During my cadet days at West Point," he told New York Promoter William Zeckendorf. "I stayed at the Astor when I was in the city, but I did not get...
The Russian "smiles'" approach, while useful on the world scene, tends to create a demand for freedom both at home and in the satellites, and the Communist Party cannot keep appeasing the demand without jeopardizing its rule. Furthermore, the Soviet policy of economic aid to non-Communist nations has...
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...
Strictly speaking, weight lifting is not a team sport. Each lifter must compete in three different styles of lifting,* with nothing but his own explosive energy to help him get the hefty bar bells aloft. But somehow, after their sad start, the U.S. strongmen developed a muscular team morale.
¶ In Peking, "you see no fluttering old newspapers or leaking garbage cans as in Chicago alleyways; you see no down-and-out old men such as straggle about the Bowery in New York." There are "no more open sewers, no more flies, no more rats." "Nobody is arrogant here...