Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest on his staggering electoral triumph, France's Charles de Gaulle last week moved directly to the land whose troubles brought him to power, and whose difficulties remain his biggest unsolved problem: Algeria. No ordinary colonial war, the Algerian revolt is the product of 128 years of conflict and cooperation, of intimacy and antagonism, between the French and Moslems of Algeria. The rebels who fight France hang out in Cairo, pray toward Mecca, but talk in French, and invoke the democratic ideals that France has taught them. For the story of the men and motives behind the savage struggle...
Perhaps the greatest educational benefit of Southerners attending Harvard is bestowed on their Northern and Eastern classmates who learn that the Southerners' ideas and ideals, however divergent, are based on reasoning and sincere conviction and are not just the product of the Theodore Bilbos...
...meant to outdo in magnificence any previous manuscript. To comply with the duke's wishes, a noted Florentine bookseller commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage rooms...
...Take the argument over chrome. People said they didn't want chrome. But in a good year we loaded the cars with chrome, and they sold extremely well. In many of these areas it is as much an art as a science to design a product that will sell. The successful corporation is the one that masters the art as well as the science...
Exploring the Sea. The biggest chunk of the company's sales comes from its avionics subsidiaries. The hottest new product: a 2-cu.-ft. black box (Hidan), that enables a pilot in a plane to know exactly where he is at all times. With it, pilots can take off from any airport in the U.S. and fly to another, guided only by the signals from the black...