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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration is building a $60 million research laboratory near M.I.T. Next to the 29-acre NASA development, the city is planning a private urban renewal project of high rise buildings expected to accommodate many of the research and engineering firms attracted to Cambridge by NASA and M.I.T. The City, with the cooperation of M.I.T., has already sponsored one such project. Technology Square...
...John McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, both South Carolina Democrats, who exchanged insults-then blows-on the Senate floor in 1902, giving rise to Senate Rule XIX, which bars senatorial character assassination...
Particularly since the 1962 Cuban missile debacle, which helped hasten the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Moscow has played for smaller stakes at great cost and scant return (see box). One investment it could not liquidate, however, was the Middle East. With the decline of Western influence and the rise of Arab nationalism in the 1950s, the volatile, petroliferous Moslem world became an irresistible and comparatively safe target for Russia's rulers. Their main goal, in the Middle East as elsewhere, was to displace U.S. influence. The ultimate cost of Russia's aid to the Arab world was between $3 billion...
...Rise to Power: Gifted with phenomenal memory and an analytical intelligence that might have taken him to the top of any capitalist corporation, Kosygin advanced swiftly as an efficient, inventive technocrat of the Stalinist era. He became overall boss of the textile industry in 1939, during the war served as deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of People's Commissars. He soon caught Stalin's eye, and in 1948 became the youngest (43) member of the Politburo...
...Moribund Market. One of Galbraith's main contentions is that the rise of the technostructure has brought the demise of that cornerstone of capitalism, the free market. As avidly as Eastern Europe's socialists, the U.S.'s industrial organization men embrace the cult of planning, leaving very little to the chancy market. Galbraith argues that they carefully plan production, use aggressive advertising as part of that planning to bamboozle the public into buying, and are sufficiently monopolistic to "establish prices and insure demand." In the fastest-rising industries-defense, space, atomics, electronics and supersonic transport-they have...