Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system capable of detecting and tracking missile and rocket firings far beyond the range of the keenest-eyed radar (see SCIENCE...
...Khrushchev and his deputy, Frol Kozlov, are the only top Communists who are able to get through to the people across the extraordinary gap of class distinction that separates the Communist hierarchy from the people. Communist leadership in general has failed to develop any enthusiasm or support for the system itself; this lack of enthusiasm does not promise incipient revolution, but does promise minds receptive to logical Western argument...
Equally important is the data that Explorer VI will send back about its own solar-powered performance. If it continues to be successful, solar energy will be used to drive future U.S. satellite instruments and to operate orbiting TV scanners that will transmit unclouded images of the solar system. Last week, with a wink at Christopher Columbus and George Eastman, Explorer VI televised back a crude image of smudges and blurs-the first picture of the earth ever shot from so far out in space...
...Governors, meeting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout bomb shelters, since a nationwide system of private shelters would blunt the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail, would save millions of lives and ensure the survival of the U.S. itself in case of nuclear attack...
Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...