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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unknown at the Shop, the scene of many little economics, and he smiled modestly at the salesman who was watching his progress to the Valentines rack. Glancing guiltily past those daring, jokey ones, he hovered over the "Personal" section...
...stages of the competitions, to pass necessary tests on from is assigned a tutor--a veteran editor who assists with analysis of work compiled and guides the prospect through his competition. Each board appoints a chairman to oversee the work of the tutor, confer regularly with candidates on their progress, and pass judgement at intervals...
...cause for complacency either, and there was a complacent undertone in McElroy's assurances. Complacent acceptance of a 3-to-1 ICBM gap runs the risk that the actual gap will prove to be very much larger: Soviet technological progress has been underestimated before, can be underestimated again. And the existence of even a 3-to-1 gap could, without a shot being fired, shake the morale and twist the policies not only of neutralist nations but even of U.S. allies...
...physicists convening in New York heard an elaborate progress report on controlled fusion power. The consensus-practical H-power is still decades, perhaps generations away...
...theme, announced by a menacing rush of pennants out of the mist. The peasant at the bridge is a contrasting grace note of peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens out, like a swelling andante, into the expanse of the lake, the welcoming bridge. Above, square black flags are a dancing...