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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room,, white clapboard Cumberland Township election house outside Gettysburg. They identified themselves to an election official, and workers at the roughhewn wooden table checked their names in the record books. "Housewife."' said the listing of the woman's occupation. After her husband's name, the record read:"President of the United States."' Under the light of four naked electric light bulbs, by the heat of a small oil stove, the President of the U.S. marked his ballot in the election of 1956. It took him just 45 seconds. For Mamie Eisenhower, the process was somewhat longer...
...Security Council sat down late one morning last week around a semicircular table, to decide what the U.N. ought to do about the Israeli invasion of Egypt. Scarcely had they begun their deliberations when Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev scurried from the room. Returning a moment later, he self-righteously read out to his colleagues an A.P. dispatch: "Britain and France declared today their forces will occupy key positions in the Suez Canal area unless Israelis and Egyptians stop fighting within twelve hours...
...behavior and design. The broad facts, however, are that both pilot and ship performed far too well. Captain Apt had been told not to watch his machmeter, the common speed-measuring instrument. His accelerometer, the key speed instrument in this case, could not be read directly in miles per hour. So, when he reached peak speed, he probably did not know how fast he was going. After his engine cut out, he must have slowed down, but when he started to turn, he was still moving at such speed that the little-known phenomena of supersonic flight made his controls...
...slow him down appreciably. He graduated from Georgia Tech, won a Ph.D. at Columbia. For sight he substituted an amazing ability to comprehend by ear. He grasped with ease the meaning of equations that he could not see; he designed complicated machinery without being able to draw or read a blueprint. Sighted students watched with wonderment while he worked with dangerous power tools...
...only talk about the situation in Hungary and elsewhere to others, but be ready to volunteer and fight, if necessary, to secure the liberties of our fellowman, though they might be 4,000 miles away. Anyone who heard or read the urgent radio appeals from Hungary last Saturday night would be callous indeed, were he not ready to strike a blow for freedom now, even if he has been in Korea or in a concentration camp aboad during World War II. Refugees streaming into Austria from Hungary, asked this...