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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew to Washington to brief President Eisenhower on the possibilities. Nautilus' commanding officer: Commander William R. Anderson, 37, Tennessee-born Annapolis standout (class of '42), submariner veteran of Tarpon, Narwhal, Trutta, Sarda, Tang and Wahoo in World War II and the cold war, recent staffer in the Atomic Energy Commission. After Anderson's June briefing, the President gave the Navy its orders: Go ahead. And as he pulled out of Pearl Harbor last fortnight and set course almost due north toward the Aleutians and the Bering Straits, Nautilus' captain began to set about record-cracking...
...streets of Nicosia one evening last week just before curfew. Men and women, waiting until British military patrols rounded the corner, furtively scooped up the leaflets, eagerly read the truce offer of Colonel Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings...
...have a voice in governing the island), and separate assemblies for Turkish and Greek Cypriots, because this seemed too close to the partition demanded by Turkey. Besides, argued the Greeks, such a plan would freeze into law the hostility between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that has developed only in recent months...
Quoting a recent monograph describing a so-called "meritocracy," Halsey stated that in light of current trends in education, the twenty-first century will find "the intelligence test more important than the birth certificate...
...sprawling U.S. Steel, it marked quite a comeback. The corporation had long been a textbook model of corporate disorganization and technological backwardness. As a result, its share of the nation's steel production plunged from 65% in 1901 to 29% today. But in recent years U.S. Steel's plants and personnel have undergone a major, largely unnoticed revolution of modernization...