Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower was "out of touch" with technological advances in weaponry, says Gavin, as far back as SHAPE days...
...budget (TIME, Jan. 13). This week LIFE published the second of two installments on Gavin's quickly written 304-page book, War and Peace in the Space Age (Harper; $5), a rumpus-raising attack on his old enemies and a sharp accusation that the Army is in bad shape technologically because the defense effort has been too concentrated on the Air Force. And this, he says, is doubly tragic, because: 1) limited wars using tactical atomic weapons are still more likely than the massive air-atomic one for which the Strategic Air Command is ready...
...absorbed such deserved and damning criticism. All summer long the twelve-year-old television industry has been clobbered by critics and cold-shouldered by advertisers. Last week it took its worst tongue lashing yet. TV, reported Variety in its annual radio-television review and preview, is in such sad shape that the tube lights are going out in living rooms all across the land...
...whatever the ultimate shape of the summit, the week of U.S. notes had managed to 1) placate U.S. allies, 2) keep the Middle East crisis from slipping out of the Security Council's hands, and 3) put upon Khrushchev the burden of either rejecting the summit meeting or accepting on U.S.-U.N. terms...
Resembling an old-fashioned hand printing press, the machine can be operated by two men, one of whom pours in the soil-cement mixture while the other pumps the long handle to press the brick into shape at a pressure of about 10,000 lbs. per sq. in. In two days it can turn out enough brick to build a hut-sized house, is light enough (140 lbs.) to be packed by mule to backwoods villages, inexpensive enough to serve even the most. depressed areas. The machine costs about $50 to produce, makes rock-hard bricks for less than...