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...Ostensibly, his speech was a plea for "complete and immediate" disarmament, but it came out as a threat. His words dropped heavily into the hushed chamber beside the East River: "We will not be bullied, we will not be scared. Our economy is flowering, our technology is on a steep upturn, our working class is united in full solidarity. You want to compete with us in the arms race? We will beat you in that. Production of rockets is now a matter of mass delivery-like sausages that come out of an automatic machine...
...third quarter over the same period in 1959, lifted per-share earnings for the nine months to $6.51 v. $5.57 last year. Aided by 70% load factors on its new jets, which now carry 56% of United's passengers, United Air Lines made a steep climb; President William A. ("Pat") Patterson announced record third-quarter earnings of $1.97 per share, up from $1.74 a year ago. Ford, riding the compact crest, announced an extra quarterly dividend...
...varsity soccer team's hopes for the Ivy League title took a steep dive yesterday at Hanover, as Dartmouth whipped the Crimson, 5 to 2. In a thoroughly dismal defensive showing, the varsity allowed more goals to be scored against it than in any other contest in several years...
...page, allowing the eyes to trigger the mind directly and eliminating the necessity of saying, hearing or thinking the sound of words." Mrs. Wood thinks most people are "sub-vocalizers" or inward lip-readers. Just as a pilot is aware of many things at once, her students learn to steep themselves in a book's total mood and meaning. "You see more than a single detail in a picture," she explains. "You see the whole thing...
High in the Rocky Mountains, a giant tractor eased a six-room house along a steep, narrow road. As workmen loaded another house onto a huge steel trailer, a foreman shouted to the anxious bystanders, "Don't you worry, folks, the coffee you left behind will be a bit cooler when it gets there, but not a drop will be spilled...