Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chid law's Air Defense is at the ready every minute of the day and night. Its radar (see cut) and interceptors could make the difference between life and sudden death for millions of Amer icans and perhaps for the nation itself. No defense can be close to perfect, but the ever-alert, ever-expanding Continental Command is dedicated to the proposition that defense measures are practical, even in a ther- monuclear...
...speed and multiply the menace of any Soviet air strike. Observers, who saw the huge T-37 flying over Moscow at 200 ft., hoped for a time that the planes were prototypes displayed as bluff. But in June a flight of 60 T-395 flew over Moscow in perfect formation...
Gauntlet of Fire. No airman can predict the kill rate if the attack force of 900 Soviet bombers strikes. "There are," said General Chidlaw, "too many intangible factors. Obviously, if the enemy struck in perfect weather and in small numbers, we'd do a most creditable job in cleaning him up ... Bad weather and a tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range...
...picture fails because a drama is popularized which was already perhaps too popular. Critics such as Howard Taubman have had to speak out periodically, defending Carmen from her admirers and pointing out that beneath the years of uninformed applause, the opera stands, near-perfect. Moving this drama from the Spain of the last century to the South of a decade ago does not bring the characters closer to the audience. The switch in locale merely points up incongruities which slip by better in the splendor of opera. When an American murders his love, for example, he does not burst into...
...growing pains are proportionately huge; the country is racked by inflation, is desperately short of development capital and pitifully dependent on its one big export, coffee. As the finance ministers of Latin America gathered last week for the inter-American economic conference (see below), Brazil was an almost perfect case history of the economic ills besetting most of Latin America...