Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this would be enough to talk about at length. But TIME'S object this week is a little more. The nation has steadied down since its first feverish response to Russia's sweep into outer space. A series of impressive public school reforms and experiments has begun. As the new school year opens, the top education story is a growing campaign to galvanize every talent at every level-a kind of common consent that equality of effort ranks as high on the agenda as equality of opportunity. This week's cover story is a panoramic view...
...medium-priced 220 ($4,767 with fuel injection) has a somewhat lower, slightly streamlined body that keeps the unmistakable Mercedes look, a slight suggestion of tail fins, new and larger wrap-around windows (35% more glass), a lower, broader radiator grille, and 50% more luggage space...
...dream than a onetime teacher named John Lawrence Burns, 50, president of the huge ($1.2 billion a year), kaleidoscopic Radio Corp. of America. Spectacled, stocky John Burns not only runs the biggest U.S. entertainment company, but a sprawling complex that is intimately involved in a dozen major fields, from space vehicles to atomic energy, contains all the myriad problems unique to scientists and scenarists, artists and admen...
...wants all the nation's schools linked in one grand educational network, starring the best U.S. teachers, who would be paid as much as Burns himself ($170,000). For the blue-sky future, Burns is pushing the development of simple "thermoelectric"' air conditioners with no moving parts, space vehicles. TV systems that will peer to the stars...
Baby Cars. A new line of ultra small cars will be introduced by British Motor Corp. in the U.S. within six months to a year. Engines will be mounted crosswise to save space, and the cars will have front-wheel drive, no rear axle. Dubbed the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, they will have 36-h.p., four-cylinder engines (top speed: 70 m.p.h.), run 45 miles on a gallon of gas. U.S. price: about...