Word: super
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single magnetic explosion, which makes a bang like a big gun, destroys costly apparatus, so Furth, Levine and Waniek are trying to design a super-magnet that will not destroy itself. The basic idea is to oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned...
...Britain is no longer a super-Power," wrote British Editor Geoffrey Crowther in the current Foreign Affairs. "She is perhaps in a class by herself, but it is not the highest class, nor is it one that permits her the luxury of fully independent action." The urgent need, he insisted, "for Britain and France is to realize the extent to which they have become dependent on the U.S. and to accommodate themselves to this fact." Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge put it more simply: "The days of GREAT Britain are over...
...play? Was it a flop? Was it a clinker? No, it was a super-disaster called Snowshoes and presented last week over CBS's Playhouse 90. There are these racetrack types down and out in Miami and they get a race horse and then somebody thinks of Bridey Murphy and a hypnotist makes the horse think he's Man o' War, or does he? and then . . . Well, that was the way it went. Trendex gave Snowshoes a high rating, which ought to make Playhouse 90, its sponsors and its network worry: Will many of those millions ever...
...Technology began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award for the class of '56. But for some reason John was falling far behind his M.I.T. classmates...
...organizing months, at least, of a Democratic Administration. Stevenson's law partners William McCormick Blair and Willard Wirtz would undoubtedly wind up on his White House staff, along with campaign manager Jim Finnegan and press secretary Clayton Fritchey. Estes Kefauver, as Vice President, seems slated for the post of "super-Secretary of Agriculture" if he fails to make himself an effective leader of the Senate. And a newcomer but a long-standing personal friend of Stevenson--Dean Edward S. Mason of the Littauer Center--could serve as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, where the influence of Professors...