Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, May 5--President Eisenhower cautioned the steel industry and its workers today that "the United States cannot stand still and do nothing" if they push wages and prices upward in an inflationary spiral...
...critics have dutifully produced a jargon suitable for such works. Sample (Nicolas Calas in Art News): "Jasper Johns extinguishes the emblematic character of a given sign . . . The target of blue and yellow circles holds the implication that from the marksman's stand it would be seen as a sphere of green . . . From a national emblem the flag becomes a symbol of ambiguity; from the insignia it is converted into poetry ... If a flashlight instead of a gun is aimed at the target of displaced colors the silence grows louder...
...while, he did basic physical research on terrestrial magnetism, which influences cosmic rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert on how to pack complex circuitry into...
...hands of husky young (31) George Ludwig, a graduate student who has proved himself a mechanical genius in the painstaking new art of space instrumentation. Each ounce counts, because it costs many thousands of dollars to put each ounce into orbit. The tiny, buglike components must stand enormous g forces, vibration and spin, survive violent changes of temperature...
...North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying unsuccessfully to stand up under the white man's burden...