Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were skeptics who questioned whether Lunik got to the moon at all. Since the only tangible evidence of a hit was the sudden stopping of its radio signals, the Russians might have set the signals to turn off automatically at a predetermined time while Lunik II soared on past the moon (as Lunik...
...ravings still tell a real story -of a young university graduate educated beyond his background through the goodness of the welfare state, frustrated in a nation living in twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs...
...million, there are some areas where unemployment is becoming a permanent problem. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell last week classified 70 such U.S. areas as centers of "chronic labor surplus" because unemployment has been at least 50% higher than the national average over four of the past five years. Of the 3,426,000 workers idle in August, Mitchell estimated that 500,000 were in the 70 most distressed areas. Seventeen of the areas, including Detroit, Providence and Charleston, W.Va., were officially labeled as "chronic" for the first time. Reasons: depletion of natural resources, the shift from hard coal...
Thus the coal-mining, textile and auto industry towns, said the Labor Department, bear the burden of chronic unemployment. In Detroit alone, automation, decentralization and lower production have brought the loss of 130,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the past nine years. This means, said the Labor Department, that since 1950 one out of every three auto workers has lost...
...commander's wife, and there begins a tortured, driving love affair that is not only credible but deeply revealing. Through it the reader and Sulgrave begin to see what made the commander and Lieut. Dolfus the inscrutable men they seemed on the island. Theirs had been a common past, itself a prelude to ultimate unhappiness...