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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson subcommittee got a dour estimate of U.S. strength from its first witness. In four hours of testimony, shaggy-browed, often emotional Dr. Edward Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) ran off a grim morning line on U.S. chances in the race for survival. The University of California physicist estimated that Russia is closing the gap in nuclear weapons, is about equal to the U.S. in aircraft and radar development, is ahead in ballistic missiles. Said Teller: "I would not say that the Russians caught up with us because they stole our secrets. They caught up with us because they worked harder...
...being photographed, and had them back safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit, "was a bad moment," but it had a telling effect on Fascist policy. After that. Benito Mussolini's breakfasts were made pleasanter by the fact that he could read reports from Whitehall to Rome often before British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond himself had seen them...
...unrationed, but they were getting less than half the pork they had eaten in the past; the state bought their pigs at fixed low prices through the purchasing monopoly, sold them back through the state sales monopoly at a price few peasants could afford. In the cities there was often not enough to fill even the ration. In Shanghai people got up at 3 a.m. to get at the head of the queues in the pork market...
...better performances on other records: Leadbelly's Mary Don't You Weep, Gary Davis's Wreck of the 97, or Lee Payant's Big Rock Candy Mountain. In a sense, Seeger is joining battle with all of his competitors at the same time; it is not surprising that he often comes off second best...
...these apartments can only accommodate one-seventh of the demand. The remainder of the married graduate students is forced to devise expedients. Everybody finds something. Some live in trailers; others take big apartments and rent rooms. Often, two couples share a small apartment while they wait for an opening at the Housing Trust. The length of time on the waiting list is largely a matter of luck. For some, it is a matter of two or three weeks; others wait months in cramped quarters. Mrs. F. K. Patterson, assistant director of the Harvard Wives, says that married students are generally...