Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homecoming last week. In the crowd of 3,500 that greeted him at the airport, not a single high-name Democrat was in sight. When Nixon got to the Senate chamber to take up his post as presiding officer. Republicans stood up and applauded, but the Democrats present, including Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, remained seated and silent...
...present position in the political spectrum, even Soustelle himself cannot define it. "In social matters," he said last week, "I could today be classified as a complete man of the left. But I do not admit that to be a good republican one must deny one's national feelings." The issues that once separated right from left in France no longer seem of primary importance to Jacques Soustelle. What is of primary importance...
...abortive invasion of June 14, and was probably killed. The others refused to go -and were clapped into prison. They were freed after a two-day hunger strike, told to leave Cuba and keep their mouths shut. Last week the U.S. Justice Department was quietly gathering evidence to present to a grand jury. The U.S. could do nothing about what happens in Cuba. But it could halt the illegal recruiting of U.S. citizens to fight Castro's wars in the Caribbean...
...shrouds the most intricate and talented collection of scientific instruments yet sent into space -all in a 29-in. by 26-in. ball that moves through its complete orbit once every twelve hours. One hoped-for result is the first relatively detailed map of the Van Allen belts, which present a formidable barrier to interplanetary flight. Previous earth satellites have not gone high enough to examine the enormous breadth of the Van Allen radiation. Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into orbit around the sun. Several devices in Explorer...
...about the size of a card table, they were in high, far, pleasant places on the undersides of overhanging rocks. They resemble Stone Age art found in eastern Spain, the Tassili mountains of North Africa, in India and Indonesia. They depict tall, slender, square-shouldered people quite unlike the present-day aborigines. Sharply designed and hauntingly evocative, they suggest a lost civilization with its own unnamed gods and elaborate ritual. Some paintings show boomerangs, the aborigine's weapon, but boomerangs were used in several parts of the prehistoric world. Lommel has not the slightest notion what the pictures signify...