Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombs and the means of delivery of such bombs, and this has been true ever since the end of World War II. All the argument about technology is beside the point. The problem is a political one. The political conditions for satisfactory policing do not exist. Hence the proper question to consider is how such political conditions can be secured...
...first of three radio and TV appeals for a "frank and massive" yes in the Jan. 8 referendum to his plan to give self-determination to Algeria, De Gaulle warned the Europeans of Algeria that their dream of transforming Algeria into a province of France and Moslems into proper Frenchmen was dead...
Four years ago Admiral Arleigh Burke, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, decided that South America's navies-at times the butt of jokes-could patrol their own waters with the proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...
...very reason of his climb up the ever steepening curve, the scientist has more than ever before come into the consciousness of world society?and in that limelight the scientist more than ever before is fumbling for and arguing about his proper role in society itself. "Scientists," says Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, "are the most important occupational group of the world today. At this moment, what they do is of passionate concern to the whole of human society...
...first to detect the 21-cm. waves from cold hydrogen throughout space. Purcell explains that if intelligent aliens send messages to the earth, they will use a sort of reversed cipher that is deliberately made easy to translate. Their first problem will be to select the proper radio frequency: there is no use picking one at random. Unless listening earthlings know how to tune their receivers, they will hear nothing. Therefore, says Purcell, the aliens will select the 21-cm. waves, which are the sharpest and most universal radio waves that flash through space. The aliens will reason that...