Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obedience, but hardly provides the climate for intellectual creativity. The great, vast public, foreign observers report, seems more resigned to its lot, and even grateful for the orderliness that keeps warlords from swooping down on farmers to steal their harvests. But in a nation that has only a paper-thin economic surplus to invest in industrial growth, a loss of mass enthusiasm and a consequent drop in production could be no less deadly than active popular resistance...
Satellites have copped most of the headlines as observation posts outside the earth's atmosphere. But in many ways balloons are better. They are vastly cheaper; they can be manned and recovered; and modern balloons made out of thin plastic film can lift heavy and bulky instruments above nearly all of the atmosphere...
...speed, the energy transfer may be as low as 10%. One explanation of this behavior is based on the relativistic principle that objects moving at extremely high speed become foreshortened in the direction of their motion. Particles that are essentially spheres at low speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...
...little fellow, skinny and pale, oblivious to his receding hairline. His chin was receding, too, as were his eyes in little chipmunk pits far in his skull. He was very nervous, and twisted the sheets of very thin blue paper from which he read...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 35, London-born actor of films (It Should Happen to You) and TV (The Thin Man), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 33, younger sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy: a second daughter, third child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Victoria. Weight...