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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the University has bid for the property where the MTA yards are now located, speculation about the form of the next House-to-be has probably begun. The urbane stateliness of the present Houses is regretably too costly for the College to duplicate; thus with the realization that the break with tradition has now been irrevocably made, some Housing suggestions for the new era are offered in the spirit of modernism...
Into the '60s. Much of the confusion about the missile gap results from changes in the meaning of the term. It figures in debate in at least three different senses: 1) a gap in missile technology, 2) a gap in present missile capability, and 3) a gap in future capability. The answer to a question about the missile gap depends upon which meaning the questioner has in mind...
...Timetable. The chief challenger to Khrushchev's theorizing was not present, for reasons unexplained, but the stocky shadow of Mao Tse-tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
Living with a son and a cluster of bodyguards in the Jaragua Hotel, Batista and his crew present a picture of wariness. One day last week the trigger-cock sound of a purse snapping shut in the hotel lobby made a group of his fellow Cuban exiles swivel around. Batista himself refuses to stand before an open window, spends almost all his time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last...
...remains how to contain the reacting material (usually deuterium), since the star-hot temperatures generated by fusion would melt any known substance. Physicists have tried magnetic bottles, in which the particles are forced together by powerful magnetic fields and held there without touching the walls of the apparatus. But present magnetic bottles are unstable. They bulge and flutter, permitting their contents to escape. More current would produce stronger magnetism. But if coils are fed too much current, they get too hot and melt...