Word: null
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...null Detmold, W. Germany...
...devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless moment when the bored geriatric lover gets out of the bored hoyden's bed and hops up and down to get his circulation going. And like all humorists, she thrives on embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When...
...East German aircraft industry was a prestige project ramrodded through in 1954 by Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht himself. Jeering at West German airlines for buying foreign planes, the East Germans poured $150 million into outfitting six plants, which at their peak employed some 26,000 workers turning out Russian null In 1959, with much fanfare, the East Germans brought out their new, home-grown 66-152 turbojet airliner. The first 86-152 prototype crashed on its maiden flight-a disaster that was officially attributed to "sabotage" by Designer Manfred Gerlach (TIME, Sept. 12). While other engineers have been trying...
...participant, mainly exploring the grey world of loneliness and near despair through the eyes of women. "You see what I am," cries the anguished heroine of the title poem. "Change me, change me." . . . this print of mine, that has kept its color Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null Navy I wear to work, and wear from work, and so To my bed, so to my grave, with no Complaints, no comment: neither from my chief, The Deputy Chief Assistant, nor his chief-Only I complain...
...increase the airlift capability. Defense will add 53 troop-transport planes to its purchasing program. Thirty of these planes will be Boeing C-135 jets (military version of the 707). Deliveries at the rate of two per month will begin in June. The remaining 23 planes will be Lockheed null turboprops, which will be turned out at a fast eight per month, beginning in July. In all, the aim is to outfit the military with long-range (4,000 miles plus) craft with a 25-ton payload that can operate on relatively short, 6,000-ft. runways...