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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were pushing ahead with ballistic missiles. By 1953, when a team of U.S. physicists headed by the late Hungarian-born John von Neumann devised a way of making a thermonuclear warhead small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile of economic size, the Russians had a long head start in ballistic-missile development...
...believer in facing facts. Making it legitimate for the prisoners gives you a control over it that you wouldn't have otherwise. It gives them something to do; if they have to walk the yard when they are not working, they get nervous. That's when you start having trouble...
What of the future? Said a Western diplomat: "The Communists have merely executed a classic Red maneuver-they probed and then recoiled before brisk U.N. action. A few months from now when things quiet down, they will start to probe again." A possible way to forestall future Red probes and one that may be recommended to the Security Council by the fact finders: establishment of a permanent U.N. watchdog team in Laos...
Some have been moved by their companies and decided to stay. Others remained after forming a wartime attachment for the country and its people. But most hope to start small businesses and enjoy Canada's life. The standard of living is slightly lower (just behind the U.S.), and many prices are higher, but the easy accessibility of fine hunting and fishing makes up for a lot. "They figure they'll live longer. The rat race isn't as bad as back home," explains one official...
...moved on into space, gradually slowing down. As it passed. Lunik III was deflected by the moon's gravity, which made it veer in the moon's direction, like a child swinging on a gatepost. But the tug was not enough to make it curve sharply and start right back. Instead, it swung out 67,000 miles beyond the moon's orbit (and 292,000 miles from the earth); then it started slowly back. By this time the moon, traveling on its own orbit at 2,000 m.p.h., had moved far away...