Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millstone," and it drove two ladies in the front row to a hasty retreat). It is admittedly repellent on first hearing; and I subjected myself to it only in fits of masochism for several years before I began to fathom its great stature. Its granitic, clangorous, uncompromising dissonances take getting used to; but the piece is more than worth the effort...
...Heights area that has consistently voted against Faubus. But it would also have left Central a segregated school. Because this would clearly have violated the federal court order to deny no citizen entrance to a public school because of color, Faubus could hardly have expected the school board to take up his suggestion. But its rejection by the school board, as Faubus might also have foreseen, could only add to the troubles that face Little Rock as it prepares to reopen its schools next month...
...expected to take at least three years. When it is finished, the site will be filled, graded and, if possible, reforested. Eventually some of it may become a park-a fitting monument to the city fathers who dumped combustible rubbish against a seam of coal...
...Polar Exits. When the doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts were discovered (TIME, May 12. 1958), optimists predicted that unshielded space vehicles could avoid them by taking off on space voyages by way of the "holes"' over the polar regions. But the deadly, invisible streams of the new-found radiation lash through the polar holes, as well as through the whole solar system. Space vehicles making the short run to the moon may be able to pick quiet intervals between the flares, but voyages to Mars or Venus will take several months. During this considerable period a flare...
...shop to the world's largest manufacturer of an unlikely combination of products: self-locking aircraft nuts and women's hairclips. Last week, with sales humming on four continents at the rate of $15 million yearly, Kaynar opened a new plant in France to take advantage of the low-tariff common market...