Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later at a press conference, the President was asked about a summit conference after Khrushchev's visit to Washington. The President said: "Any summit meeting would be a grave mistake unless there was confidence among all of us that real progress of some kind could be achieved." German reporters, long fed on Washington punditry about the "sick" Ike, were impressed by the President's mastery of his topics. "He's firm," said one. Another reporter said: "He's decisive...
...President and Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Ike agreed with the State Department that the span between Oct. 12, when the Geneva conference starts up again, and Oct. 31, when the U.S. test-suspension period was supposed to end, would not give the conference enough time to make any progress no matter what the outcome of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks...
BURNS believes that corporate versatility is the key to progress and profits, plans to make RCA even more versatile. Within a year RCA will bring out a "hear-see" stereo-TV attachment that will run video tapes, e.g., Hamlet, on regular TV sets, bring ex-Teacher Burns closer to his highest goal: teaching by TV. He wants all the nation's schools linked in one grand educational network, starring the best U.S. teachers, who would be paid as much as Burns himself ($170,000). For the blue-sky future, Burns is pushing the development of simple "thermoelectric...
...head start, Masami had a long lead. But suddenly he whipped about and started churning for shore, crying: "Same da! Nigero!" (It's a shark! Run!) Closer to the shelf, his three brothers quickly made it back to safety and stood up to watch Masami's progress. Some ten yards behind him, but rapidly closing the gap, a glistening black triangle cut through the waves. Moments later Masami's brothers screamed with horror when the dorsal fin slipped from sight; the shark had dived to attack from below. Warned by their cries, Masami abruptly flailed his arms...
...Newhouse gets two fashion magazines-Charm and Mademoiselle-and Living for Young Homemakers, with a combined circulation of 1,826,360, plus Astounding Science Fiction, Air Progress, Hobbies for Young Men, Baseball Annual and Football Annual. Newhouse plans to blend Street & Smith's Charm (circ. 635,706) with Conde Nast's Glamour (circ. 671,441), will otherwise keep the firm intact as a subsidiary of Conde Nast. Street & Smith lost better than $200,000 last year, but this is a condition that Sam Newhouse, whose 14 newspapers and seven radio and TV stations comprise a productive $175 million...