Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gleaming Weapon. Dulles was still very much alive and within telephone reach of both the State Department and the White House, but the sense of shock grew, nonetheless, out of the conviction that the free world could ill afford even the temporary loss of a unique cold-war leadership. A boy who had grown up dreaming of being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson...
...hyperbolic" system that uses groups of four stations. One of them is a master, the others "slaves" arranged around it 60-100 miles apart. The Decca receiver is set to receive the waves of all three slave stations, and measure the microseconds of time they take to reach it. When the waves from two stations arrive at the same time, the airplane must be at the same distance from both stations...
Sponsored mainly by local and regional advertisers and shown against top network shows, the syndies reach huge weekly audiences (as many as 30 million for Highway Patrol). The syndies are so profitable that the networks have formed their own syndication outfits...
...transition "in which socialism develops into Communism is a regular historical process that cannot be arbitrarily violated or avoided." And instead of getting there first, as Mao had hinted China would, "Socialist countries, correctly using the opportunity of cooperation and mutual aid," said Khrushchev, "will more or less simultaneously reach the highest phase of Communist society." This would take "many years"; to try to leap there prematurely "would lead to the dissipation of accumulated means," necessary for expanding production...
York and Newport luxury. A gangling, tree-tall adolescent with a huge head topped by unruly red hair, Alec inevitably got the nickname "Pin," learned to play tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face...