Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, began by deciding that the Democratic caucus, usually a cut-and-dried organizational affair, this time would be devoted to national defense. He suggested that Republicans do the same; they did, but by the time they got around to it they had little to do but read the headlines Johnson already had made...
...general, Pentagon brass is highly pleased with the clamor for more military spending that has followed the Gaither and Rockefeller reports on the status of U.S. defenses. But the generals and admirals are getting fed up with being asked whether they have read the reports. Reason: much of the expert testimony on "which the committees based their recommendations came from the same generals and admirals. "Am I familiar with the reports?" exploded a liberally starred Air Force general last week. "How many hours do you think we've spent making those committees familiar with what's going...
...party, went into its lyrical finale. Seated before a huge golden screen, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako harkened approvingly to verse by 15 finalists chosen from a record 17,238 entrants trying their hand at the formal 31-syllable waka. Then they listened solemnly while their own poems were read. The imperial family does not compete in the contest itself, this year featuring the subject of "Clouds." Hirohito's effort, read five times...
Nagako's waka, read thrice, also lost something in translation...
General Dynamics' widespread diversification eases the task of finding uses for its scientists' new ideas. When Convair evolved the idea for the Charactron tube, which can read 1,200,000 characters a minute. Stromberg-Carlson got the job of producing and distributing it. and Electric Boat set to work adapting it into a "synthetic porthole" to give a commander all the complex information picked up by a submarine's scouting equipment...