Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's vivid new airplanes are not yet in real production. It is British custom to show new models while they are still in the prototype stage. In the security-conscious (and sometimes security-bogged) U.S., a new airplane sometimes flies for years before the public gets a peek...
...date, AEC has given private industry merely a peek. AEC information has been made available to five "study teams" from ten corporations so that they can judge the possibilities of commercial atomic power. But the companies can only look, not act. Even these companies have no incentive to explore the commercial possibilities. All their discoveries and patentable processes must be turned over to the U.S. Thus, though the Government has spent $8.6 billion in its atomic program, industry has spent only a few millions. Businessmen and AEC agree that the Atomic Energy Act should be amended thus: tj Private companies...
...ability to work out patterns in history made the 1947 abridgment of the first six volumes of his monumental A Study of History a bestseller, and Toynbee's name tinkled among the Martini glasses of Brooklyn as well as of Bloomsbury. Now, Historian Toynbee gives his public a peek at what is yet to come in Volumes VII through X of his magnum opus, due for publication next year. The World and the West, a collection of six lectures delivered last year on the BBC, is always readable, if often disconcertingly brief in its arguments...
...four prizewinners. The $2,000 First Prize went to Abraham Rattner's glowing Composition with Three Figures (opposite). A pleasantly romantic still life by Hobson Pittman took second money, Francis Chapin sailed in third with Regatta at Edgartown (opposite), and William Congdon came fourth with a chic peek at Venice, done in glimmering impasto...
...Force Cambridge (Mass.) Research Center now tells of a gadget specially designed to do the job from a high-flying rocket. Developed at the University of Colorado, the "sun-seeker" has 21 photoelectric cells that peek from doors opened in the nose of the rocket as it climbs toward the top of the atmosphere. Sunlight falling on the cells tells them just where the sun is. They take note of this information and keep a spectrographic camera pointing straight at the sun, even though the rocket may be rolling...