Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has long been considered an unavoidable childhood disease. Now there is a good chance that the spots will be wiped out, thanks to the work of Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John Franklin Enders, whose researches also made the Salk polio vaccine possible. For Enders' own progress report, see MEDICINE, Vaccine for Measles...
...liquid-fueled missiles-the ICBMs Atlas and Titan, the IRBMs Thor and Jupiter-and had also been aware that long-countdown liquid-fuel missiles were not weapons of true instant retaliation. Barred by the Defense Department temporarily from solid-fuel development, the Air Force was impressed by the rapid progress and strategic potential of the Navy's solid-fuel Polaris. Months ago Schriever's men got down to work adapting the Polaris' developments to Air Force concepts...
Three-Legged Horse. Sukarno came back to Djakarta full of wonder. "I've seen the answer in China," he told inti mates. "Now we must do something. Ev ery country in the world seems to make progress but Indonesia." His new political idea: "guided democracy." It was based, he said, on the ancient village idea of gotong-royong, mutual help, a sort of village meeting where all the elders discuss and discuss a proposition until they are in unanimous agreement. There was no vote, because votes produce majorities and minorities, and such division of the people leads to unhappiness...
...mild recurrences, has led an active life. From the presidency of Park & Tilford, Arthur Schulte moved to investment banking in Wall Street. Last week, in gratitude for heparin's help, ex-Patient Schulte footed the bills for a Manhattan conference staged by the New York Heart Association on progress in anticoagulant drugs...
...Russia Leaves the War, the first of a three-volume study-in-progress of Soviet-American relations (1917-20), scholarly ex-Diplomat George F. Kennan described the birth of Bolshevism in Russia. Volume II, The Decision to Intervene, tells the fascinating story of how the Allies irresolutely attempted to strangle the newborn Red monster...