Word: restless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those corporate minds! "Far to the right" Cordiner informs us: "Civilization is moved forward by restless people, not by those who are satisfied by things as they are." G.E. better retire that boy. He's about to become a democrat, or even worse, a Democrat. Bet the board lets him off the hook when he explains that "civilization" only means...
...young Marek Hlasko, 26, most gifted writer of Poland's restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would...
After a few more moments on the evolutionary time scale, earth's restless social primate, man, can almost surely make himself felt throughout the system. Earth's life will no longer be confined to the earth. This startling development took place with explosive suddenness. Boys still in high school remember a time when sensible citizens considered space flight as impractical as hunting leprechauns. Only ten years ago the altitude record for rockets, 250 miles, was held a brilliant achievement. Only two years ago, the earth satellite, that humblest of space vehicles, seemed an almost impossible project...
Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
...biggest supplier of power equipment, concerned with power for everything from toasters to jet engines. Its stake has been defined in terms that every schoolboy can understand by G.E.'s chairman Ralph Jarron Cordiner, 58, a short (5 ft. 7½ in.), power-packed man with restless eyes that are always trained on the future, ever watchful for risk and opportunity. Says Cordiner: "The atom is the power of the future-and power is the business of General Electric...