Word: peakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Probably no living U.S. citizen is more widely known and esteemed throughout Latin America than Nelson Rockefeller. During Rockefeller's tenure as wartime Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and as Assistant Secretary of State, the Good Neighbor Policy hit its peak of effectiveness. Since then, he has actively interested himself through his International Basic Economy Corporation in Latin American economic development, and has kept himself closely informed of the Latin American point of view...
...gazetteers explored everything from ocean currents to ghost towns, from dam sites and battle sites to the sites of ancient ruins. But their race with a changing world had to keep on right up to the last. When the book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest spot...
...half a century the white-bearded old master has stood unchallenged at the peak of his art. Every sculptor who could afford his stiff prices ($9,000 nowadays for a life-size figure) sent his work to Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
...their sets. As the minutes ticked by, the announcer on News Nob, ten miles from Yucca Flat, Nev., described the scene tensely. Only 15 minutes before H-hour, the picture grew shaky, wobbled, then disappeared. When it came back, there was a new camera angle, this time from Charleston Peak, 57 miles away. Then, at 9:30 a.m. P.S.T., viewers got what they were waiting for: a live telecast of an atomic explosion, the first ever covered on a television network...
...From cameras on News Nob, the signal was beamed to the Atomic Energy Commission's control point a quarter of a mile away, then to a second relay near the top of snow-covered Charleston Peak, about 46 miles farther...