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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue to rise. U.A.W. wants to boost its average $2.46 hourly wage rate by 10?; pace-setting General Motors has offered 6?. Union also will ask for bigger layoff, pension and health benefits, but will probably scrap its demand for profit sharing if G.M. agrees to more pay for shorter week...
...stage rocket, 57 ft. long, weighing 65,000 lbs., with predicted 5,500-mile range. It is designed to pack a thermonuclear warhead smaller than that of the liquid-fueled ICBM Atlas, but big enough to take out major targets. Its major components can be broken down to make shorter-range missiles; by itself the missile's third stage could make a useful tactical ballistic missile (TBM) with 500-to 1,000-mile range; its second and third stages would combine to make a 1,500-mile IRBM for use from such close-in bases as those in Europe...
Doubt about the economic future is certainly a prime factor, along with complaints that prices are too high, cars too big and too little changed from last year. Finance companies are more choosy about making longterm, 36-month loans; the shorter payoffs require higher monthly payments than many people are willing to take...
...research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time as seen through an astigmatism-correcting lens. Where the cardinal had appeared elongated and distorted, he now appeared normal; where the cardinal had leaned forward almost falling off his chair...
...these "Limericks," Patchen writes of little men with wooden hair, playful street-cars, forgetful commuters, and a man two inches shorter than himself--all of them good, very good...