Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night he studied mechanical engineering at the Mechanics Institute, electrical engineering through the International Correspondence School. The year after he got married, Symington borrowed $250,000 from his uncles and started a business of his own, Eastern Clay Products Co., specializing in bonding clay for foundry molds. By its second year, it rolled up a profit...
...brought stale government alive. The quality of executive drive is a tough one to merchandise from a political platform, no matter how handsome the driver. But a man who is already endowed with the negative assets and the positive cause of defense, and who is already the professionals' second choice, could reasonably see a chance to wind up in the driver's seat by the time the Democratic Convention has ended...
...discovered that underground explosions below 20 kilotons (about Hiroshima size) cannot accurately be detected by known seismographic instruments (TIME, Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the U.S. has had to hold up development of "clean" (low-fallout) bombs and smaller thermonuclear weapons. Sample result: a delay in the smaller warhead for the second-generation Minuteman intercontinental missile...
...their own initiative. Bungling Warsaw planners pegged meat prices so low that workers, with extra money to spend, ate more and more. At the same time, farmers' profit margins on livestock were reduced to the point where incentive to raise animals was almost destroyed. In 1959's second quarter, meat consumption increased 14% while production slumped 6.3% below 1958. Hastily, Gomulka raised meat prices 25%, but it was too late. Long queues now form daily before near-empty butcher shops, and meatless Mondays have been decreed in Warsaw...
...School concludes with a senior thesis (At Princeton, no sharp distinction is made between honors students and those who shuffle along in a non-honors program: everyone writes a senior thesis. There is also a three-part senior comprehensive examination,--an essay on a very broad question, a second essay on a set of field problems, and a rather specific question which is not, however, "course-oriented...