Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bing? The only one I know is the one who has talent of his own. However, Mr. Bing's dyspeptic remarks might indicate that the time has come for him to take a trip. If he wants to find out about Santa Fe, we'll roll out the red carpet for him any time...
...inflammable civil rights problem. But Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Mulholland Butler struck some huge sparks on ABC-TV's College News Conference. "Those in the South who are not deeply dedicated to the philosophies of the Democratic Party will have to go their own way," he snapped, "take political asylum where they can find it, either in the Republican Party or a third party." Within hours, the landscape was bright with rebel fireworks that would doubtless enliven Democratic politics down through the 1960 presidential campaign...
...public schools beyond the eighth grade-a quirk that has got the Amish into trouble with state and county authorities (TIME, March 24). The strictest members of the sect balk at social security levies on the grounds that I Timothy 5:8 and other Bible passages command them to take care of their own. And they do: records in Wayne and Holmes counties show not a single case of an Amishman seeking public assistance of any kind...
...fission process, nuclear reactors produce a gas-Krypton 85-which hangs in the atmosphere. The U.S. can take careful readings of Krypton 85 in the air, subtract what it knows it has put there, subtract what the British have put there, and assign the balance to Russian origin. Making an even less exact calculation, U.S. experts guesstimate that the Russians must have something like 3,000 nuclear weapons. The U.S. may have at least three times that, but it does not make much difference: nuclear parity is achieved when each has enough to destroy the other...
...considerable margin. Lazaroff observed, "We strongly hesitated before resuming the service this year, and we have not yet decided about next year." The Society has provided convenient transportation to Wellesley for five years, Lazaroff stated, "but if interest continues to slip, the financial risk may become too great to take...