Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West, had participated to a greater or lesser extent in their own liberation. Yugoslavia and Albania defy Russia today partly because they rose against the Germans initially without Soviet aid. And in the West, it was Italy and France who helped the Americans drive out Hitler. Raymond Aron has written: "If France had not taken part in her own liberation, she would have had to under-take the heavy task of reconstruction in an atmosphere of grief and humiliation...
...Physicist Raymond A. Lyttleton of Cambridge University proposes a return to the wrinkle theory of mountain building-but with a difference. The earth was cool and solid when it was formed, says Lyttleton; then radioactivity gradually heated its rocky material. A few billion years ago, the earth's central core got hot enough to change from a plastic solid to a true liquid. Under the enormous pressure that exists near the center of the earth, liquid rock is more compressible than solid rock. So when the core liquefied, it was squeezed into a smaller amount of space, allowing...
...forgotten the resettling. "Our people had to sell everything for 10? to 15? on the dollar. The people who bought their businesses and houses knew they had them over a barrel." Up From Eyeshades. As the years passed, Yamasaki worked for Architect Wallace Harrison and later for Designer Raymond Loewy. In 1945, the large (600 employees) Detroit firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls hired him to be its chief designer. He was at first appalled by the fusty look of the dark-walled offices : "The men wore eyeshades, and there were spittoons on the floor." But he was delighted with...
...doing something about the frustration of pioneers like Raymond W. Hilliard [Dec. 14] as he tries to teach "little-red-hen" materials to adult illiterates...
Climbing Costs. Last week such humble dramas of achievement were taking place at ten schools scattered all over Chicago. In a mass attack on illiteracy, the first of its kind in a big U.S. city, Chicago has set out to cure thousands of men and women of what Raymond W. Hilliard, director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid, calls "infectious ignorance" - uneducated, unemployable people breeding ever greater numbers of children who in turn grow up to be uneducated and unemployable...