Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turn to Tito. What Khrushchev really wants from the Rumanians and the other "fraternal countries" is a mammoth conference in Moscow next fall to demonstrate Communist loyalty to the Soviet Union and denounce Peking. The satellites resist this because they fear, probably with reason, that if Khrushchev can clearly establish his mastery over Peking, he will then try to re-establish his mastery over Eastern Europe. In this dilemma, Moscow last week turned, ironically, to Yugoslavia's Tito, the man who by his defiance of Stalin in 1948 made himself the very symbol of "national Communism." Tito knew that...
Harris readily grants that the "lives saved, suffering averted, and acceleration of recoveries" are worth more than the billions spent on drugs. But as an economist he cannot resist the conclusion: "The cost of drugs is too high. It could be substantially less...
Nearly four years later, President Conant's tone had changed but not his message. In the Baccalaureate sermon he urged '39 to "resist the tumult of the moment, the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and develop their own talents and personalities. At the UT Mickey Rooney was featured in the title role of "Huckleberry Finn...
...cool day. But lines mass there as if the company were giving away Fords. The superb showmanship of putting people in new automobiles and driving them past an assemblage of plastic reptiles and plastic cavemen by Walt Disney is more than the contemporary world is able to resist. The prehistoric pageant lasts only twelve minutes. The car radio announces: "This is the world that was," and the rider swerves past little dinosaur eggs hatching before his very eyes, while off to the left a two-story Tyrannosaurus rex is busily killing a tough stegosaurus. A caveman with Cro-Magnon bravado...
...lens-shaped to allow it to scoot along the bottom like a flounder. After experiments with a small, self-propelled model, Designer Willy Fiedler decided that the lenticular shape, made of two strong metal saucers joined at their edges, is the best for the moderately deep ocean. It will resist pressure and have more maneuverability than a sphere. Dr. Fiedler hopes to use it to spy on fish and learn to catch them cheaply. It can repair damaged cables and bury radioactive wastes in the ocean bottom. Lockheed has high hopes of eventually being able to build large Turtles...