Word: suche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the days of the French Revolution, when fanatics proclaimed that they had dethroned God and placed Reason on the ramparts of heaven, Frenchmen have struggled over the deathbeds of famous men. Stories, some apocryphal and some authenticated, tell of the last moments of such famed skeptics as Aristide Briand...
Free Labor. In Marxist fashion, Touré has clamped tight central controls on everything in sight. There is a government foreign-trade monopoly, and the state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are...
The solid-fuel rocket, too, is simple and vastly promising-but difficult. Chief problem is to get the fuel to burn dependably in such a way as to provide a precalculated, controllable thrust. In the liquid rocket this is done by an intricate system of gas generators, pumps, valves, turbines...
Minuteman. Most promising solid-fuel rocket is the Minuteman, the Air Force's long-range (6,300 miles) missile. Not much has been revealed officially, but an air of success hangs around men who are working on it. Much smaller than its rivals, the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan...
Despite its eminence, one complaint might be made against the Vienna Philharmonic: it plays too little modern music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky...