Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast bomb shelter project? No, said the President, he would not. He needs the advice of Government and citizen panels. In order for them to know what they are talking about they have to be entrusted with top-secret information. Therefore he must always insist that the "conclusions they reach and the advice they give me is of a privileged character...
Bundy said yesterday that the group would try to reach a decision today, although he would not state whether or not he favored widespread exceptions to the rule which now requires students to live in College lodgings. The Dean of the Faculty said, however, that the recent poll of the junior class "strongly reinforced our belief that the House system is a great success...
...ventures forth into space, General Dynamics is sure to have a planet-sized chunk of any U.S. undertaking. The company's task, as Frank Pace sees it, is not to reach too far ahead, but to plan carefully what it feels can be accomplished in the next 25 years. Its scientists have already placed on Washington desks a four-phase plan that would put manned satellites into space within five years. An improved Atlas would, by mid-1959, put a reconnaissance satellite into orbit 350 miles up to transmit televised images to earth. This would be followed...
Into Madness. His own fight ends without any obvious meaning. Far from Allied planes and destroyers, his crippled submarine strikes a mine and sinks as it steams for port. Teichmann and 19 others put on escape lungs, reach the surface and float helplessly. A flight of gulls lowers, swoops hungrily at the eyes of a comrade Teichmann is trying to save. Exhausted, finally broken by the war, Teichmann slips into madness. Hours later, rescue boats save 9 of the 20 men. Novelist Ott does not say whether Teichmann is one of them. It does not matter...
...Real & Unreal. The story of the Wanderer (Lagerkvist names no names) begins with his lack of, charity toward a felon who is being led to a place of execution. The felon, staggering under his cross, says: "You shall suffer greater punishment than mine; you shall never die." Later, whispers reach the Wanderer that the cross-bearer was God's son, and he soon finds out the terror of being immortal on earth: where there is no death, there is no love, at least not in the human sense. The Wanderer leaves his city.-and his age-to take...