Word: retreatants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ominous, black and still was the sea. It was 0200, Aug. 22, 1958. Position: 35° N. 73° W-about 200 miles off the North Carolina coast. A periscope sliced through the surface, and the playing reflections of stars rippled in retreat like scattering minnows. Fifty-eight feet below, in the control room of the submarine, men stood their watches in the eerie green glow of instrument lights. The prison silence was broken only by the whir of a generator, the purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland...
...leadership that no one of them is emerging as a possible head man to succeed him. That a successor may soon be needed was clear last week. Carl Gustav Jung, now 83, secluded himself from all but small groups of his followers, who made pilgrimages to his retreat at Kusnacht. Jung made only token appearances at the congress' opening and closing sessions...
...encouraged by the Mideast crisis, and might prove to be transitory. In one case they had already proved so; custom smelters of copper, who fortnight ago raised their prices ½? to 27? a lb., last week cut their prices back to 26½?. But steel showed no sign of retreat, as steel price hikes spread to 65% of the industry's output. Though Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver started a probe of the increases, the Federal Trade Commission said that it had found no illegal price fixing in the steel industry, planned no action...
...been written-and much more said-about how the recession compares with the other two postwar business declines. Last week, studying a series of remarkable charts, economists and businessmen could prove what they had suspected: this recession is the shortest of all, and the one that sends into retreat some of Lord Keynes's cherished theories. See BUSINESS, Three Recessions...
...book, Author Remarque swapped the communiqué quiet of the Western Front for the incessant noise of the Eastern Front in World War II, and Director Douglas Sirk has turned a true camera eye on the bleak grey vista of the once-proud German army in shattered retreat, its beaten soldiers yearning only for a hunk of bread and a hole in which to hide from the Russian artillery. But somebody forgot that there was a war on: the hero (John Gavin), a dutiful Wehrmacht private, gets a three-week furlough back to Germany, and from there on, the movie...