Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a month since Mao Tse-tung, boss of Red China, had arrived in Moscow. His talks with Stalin and top Soviet officials were taking longer than the three or four days usually needed for a Stalin puppet to reach agreement with Stalin. Mao and Stalin well knew that the Western world was hoping that they had fallen out. The hope was probably illusory; nevertheless, Mao's prolonged visit might be a sign that all was not well between Soviet Russia and her new Communist neighbor...
...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...
Some practical computermen scoff at such picturesque talk, but others recall odd behavior in their own machines. Robert Seeber of I.B.M. says that his big computer has a very human foible: it hates to wake up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and reach a proper temperature, but the machine is not really awake. A problem sent through its sleepy wits does not get far. Red lights flash, indicating that the machine has made an error. The patient operators try the problem again. This time the machine thinks a little more clearly. At last...
Abraham Lincoln once defined the proper length for a man's legs: long enough to reach the ground. Nobody has yet found such a simple way to measure the proper size for U.S. corporations. After five decades of sporadic U.S. trustbusting, the problem was still unsolved: Who could fix the boundaries beyond which corporate growth ceased to be healthy and became malignant...
...find the exam he is looking for. In addition, it creates an unsightly rubble pile. Where exam papers are concerned, the only way to keep them in order and in the library is to nail them down, chain them to the wall, or put them safely out of reach...