Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version of Cape Canaveral, Fla. A vital source of U.S. intelligence about Soviet missiles, the Samsun radar picked up the 1,000-mile flight of an intermediate range ballistic missile in mid-1955, has detected five IRBM launchings a month over the past year or so. Last summer, before the Russians announced the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (TIME. Sept. 9), the far-seeing eye at Samsun noted at least eight long-range missiles hurtling across Siberia toward a target area in the North Pacific, 4,000 miles from Krasnyy...
...come to the U.S. five years ago as a Soviet spy. His boss? Hayhanen pointed a pudgy finger at the expressionless, bird-faced man on trial for his life: Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, 55, a painter of modest talents, who was picked up by the FBI last summer, accused of being Russia's No. 1 spy in the U.S. (TIME...
...living costs have more than trebled since 1950; Chileans' have risen twelvefold. Britain's index has shot up 43% in seven years, and France's latest 10%-20% price zoom for food and consumer goods has already wiped out any hoped-for gain from last summer's devaluation of the franc...
...below 1952) to cars (up 270% in five years). They are eating so well again that in new cinemas, carpenters had to build the seats a couple of inches wider. People are buying 75% more refrigerators than in 1953; washing-machine sales are twice the volume of 1955. Last summer in 86 campaign speeches Erhard proclaimed: "I don't have to make any promises. I have kept them all in advance. Just look around you and see for yourselves." Erhard received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that he raced off across his native Franconian countryside singing...
IIIicit Interlude sports ballet and bodies in a hold-over run at the Brattle; Boston censors unaccountably kept shears sheathed from Passionate Summer, at Loew's Center, the French-Italian tale of "A big stud-horse of a man" who runs up against three marish women and goats on an island...