Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting a submachine gun that his father, an ex-home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took Amkha's troops nearly three days' march. The wounded died where they fell, or were borne by litter, dugout canoe or oxcart only to reach the hospital with fatally gangrenous wounds. Matter-of-factly...
...begins to reach out beyond his own planet into outer space, scientists are being forced to grapple with the fact that they live in a plasma universe. Said M.I.T. Physicist William P. Allis: "It is as if a people had lived all their lives in the mountains and then had come down to the edge of the ocean. Before they could use sea water or navigate through it, they would have to learn some things that would be perfectly obvious to anyone who had lived by the sea." Last week the National Science Foundation announced grants...
...more than $10 million for some 50 educational TV projects. Most imposing: Washington County, Md., where 18,000 first-to twelfth-grade students in 49 schools get about 120 classroom lessons a week on a closed-circuit system. By all evidence, it improves the lessons. The best teachers can reach the most students, and given several days to rehearse, the best extend themselves...
...shutdown has been met with such public apathy. But there are warnings that may soon jolt that apathy. Said Chief Economist Beryl W. Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "By Oct. 1, the strike will be a significant depressant on business. If both sides do not reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, gathered...
...best hope for solution to the seven-week-old steel strike lies in the natural pressure of economic forces on the parties involved. But when-and where-will those forces reach impasse-breaking strength? Last week, slowly but inexorably, they began to rise on all sides, starting a steady acceleration that should reach a climax in early October. By then, if the nation's basic industry is still-shuttered up, the alternative to a settlement will be real trouble for the U.S. economy. The key forces...