Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scale to rival the pyramids. On the rocky crest of one of the foothills of the snow-capped Guadarrama Range sits a sparkling, 5OO-ft., white granite cross, visible on a clear day from Madrid, 28 miles away. Beneath the cross, chipped out of the mountain's solid rock interior, is a huge crypt, 780 ft. long and richly inlaid with marble. The crypt leads to a basilica 130 ft. high, whose dome is adorned with a mosaic depicting God, the angels and the Nationalists...
...good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee for two solid weeks...
Resurgent Recovery. Prosperity is rising, unemployment is dropping, and the Republicans have gained points because they have refused to push the panic button on emergency tax cuts and all-out Government spending, stand firm on the doctrine that a sound economy would lead to a solid return to prosperity...
When it slides down the ways, Canada's icebreaker will go a long way toward opening up previously inaccessible seas, will lengthen the navigation season in relatively mild northern waters by weeks -or months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could...
...proportion larger than is required at such schools as M.I.T. and Caltech. "We need creative, responsible scientists and engineers," explains young (43), pipe-smoking President Joseph B. Platt, head of the physics department and onetime (1949-51) chief research physicist for the Atomic Energy Commission. "These men will need solid training in the basic sciences on which technology is built. They can learn the applications of these basics on the job. The ability to judge values will be just as important to them as the techniques of their trades. The humanities develop this kind of judgment...