Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening of the exhibition that evening. Khrushchev conceded in his speech to some 4,000 official guests that he had felt "a certain envy" in looking at the displays. But, he went on, the U.S.S.R. would "surpass the U.S., not only in total volume of production but also in per capita production." Russians, he said, "see the American exhibition as an exhibition of our own achievements in the near future." The day is not far off "when our country will overtake our American partner in peaceful economic competition and will then, at some station, come alongside America, salute her with...
...century, osprey eggs were so much in demand that a set of three brought up to $140-and the bird was on its way out in Britain.* In 1916 the British government put ospreys on the protected list (current penalty: up to 28 days in jail, $70 per egg), but it was too late. The last pair in the British Isles had died or emigrated...
...number of students accepting employment has risen steadily, the amount of money they have earned has jumped even more. In 1953, working undergraduates gained $200,000, but this last year students earned over $660,000. Most of the employment was on a part-time basis--ten to twelve hours per week...
Page from Perón. To fire Urrutia with maximum dramatic effect Castro borrowed a trick from another expert demagogue, Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, who once "quit" office to provoke an outburst of public support. The news hit Havana one morning by way of 5½-in. type in Castro's mouthpiece newspaper, Revolución: FIDEL RESIGNS...
...Animas Valley, Health Service scientists came across a second, even more alarming danger. Vegetables grown by irrigation contained not only 'radium (from the water), but also surprising amounts of strontium 90, which could have come only from nuclear-test fallout. Peas ranged as high as 250 micromicrocuries per kilogram (2.2 lbs.); cabbages went up to 315 micromicrocuries. One sample of lettuce had 970 micromicrocuries. The reading was twelve times the maximum permissible level set by the Atomic Energy Commission...