Word: outgrowths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department calendars one date-December 16-was looming up with the speed of light. On that day Dwight Eisenhower is scheduled to be in Paris for the unprecedented meeting of NATO chiefs of government, an outgrowth of the ringing call for NATO "interdependence" in defense and scientific research, issued by the President and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their meeting last month in Washington. Yet every passing day seemed to bring more complications than solutions; last week State Department technicians were putting in 14-hour days, and Secretary John Foster Dulles' week was a blur...
Norstad's proposal was an outgrowth of the U.S.-United Kingdom agreement at Bermuda last March, in which the U.S. promised to provide Britain with IRBMs (but without nuclear warheads*), to replace the firepower of its dwindling military manpower. It will be placed before the December meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Paris...
...debunked the latest outgrowth of Sputnikery--"flying-sauceritis," but deferred to Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory for an authoritative attack on the latest flying saucer scare...
Gallery Owner Cordier's show was an odd outgrowth of last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. Traveling in Russia at the time of the festival, Cordier was approached by a French-speaking intermediary who gave him the paintings and volunteered the information that the painter was the 27-year-old son of a Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that...
Disposable Clothing. Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, is commercially producing a new material designed for inexpensive disposable paper clothing. An outgrowth of the search for a stronger disposable handkerchief, Kimberly-Clark's Kaycel consists of cellulose with a reinforcing webbing of thread, is already being used for disposable laboratory coats and coveralls. Other uses: throwaway raincoats, aprons, skirts and industrial caps, which may sell for less than the cost of laundering or cleaning a regular cloth...