Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mission to Moscow. Thus driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
WASHINGTON, March 26--Some of America's brightest scientists are looking forward confidently to a manned space platform which could move about and return to earth at will...
Thank to a generous gift from the Friends of Harvard Track, the varsity track squad will train for a week at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Thirty-five men, including three coaches, will fly to Florida Saturday morning and return on Sunday, April...
...powered flights, using only a fraction of the engine's 50,000-lb. thrust. Finally the X-15 will point almost vertically upward and climb like a missile until it leaves nearly all of the atmosphere behind. It may rise 150 miles traveling at Mach 4. If it returns from this jaunt with its wings unmelted and its pilot alive, the door to true space flight will be open at least a crack. Return to the earth from a satellite orbit or a trip to Mars should not be very much more difficult...
...Alfred A. Knopf Jr., only son of leading Publisher (Borzoi Books), Gourmet and Skier Alfred A. Knopf Sr. Young (19) Knopf had left home and a summer job with a printing firm, despondent over being refused by Princeton, and determined (as he said in a note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers...