Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public order in the free world, and economic freedom and progress are anti-Communist weapons that, in the long run, may prove even more effective than arms in giving body to the "Spirit of Geneva." On those fronts, last week saw not relaxation, but forward movement...
Under the careful coaching of Grandfather and "Mr. Nielsen," young David tried his inexpert hand at fly-casting, driving a golf ball, and riding one of the dappled horses in Nielsen's stable. One day the press came by to record David's progress. Said Ike proudly: "He wants to fish, he wants to play golf, he wants to ride. There are so many things he wants to do, and like all little boys, he doesn't know which one he wants." When a reporter commented on David's easy handling of a big horse...
...craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany's booming postwar recovery? "When you start from zero, all progress seems imposing." His main recollection of Der Führer? Replied he: "Hitler was a betrayer and a madman, but he was a genius, as so many criminals are." Then the visitor registered pained indignation. "The moment I discovered that [madness]," said Hjalmar Schacht, a Nazi minister without portfolio until...
...famed conqueror of yellow fever. For all its latter-day interest in such matters as freeze-anesthesia and radiation sickness, the Army must still, like Reed, plod squishy jungle trails to track down diseases that beset its men in the tropics. Among Walter Reed's works-in-progress...
...give them high energy but little heat effect; a low-voltage, high-current accelerator shooting more particles at lower speeds might supply the few millions of degrees required for fusion. Even ordinary TNT "shaped charge" explosions might do the triggering. Already, said Bhabha. Indian theoretical scientists were making "reasonable progress" toward an answer...