Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both panel members agreed that Russia has been making an excellent impression on the one-third of the world's population that is uncommitted to either of the great powers...
...toward U.S. targets. Then smaller radars inside mammoth 150-ft. domes-three at Thule, two at Clear-will track the incoming missiles, feed data on speed, course, etc. into computers to determine at what point the missiles are aimed in the U.S. The Air Force expects to build a third and close-in BMEWS station in Scotland to track missiles that might be fired westward across the Atlantic...
...Senate (34-24) and Assembly (92-56) began to show signs of crumbling, Politician Rockefeller went to work. One day he would invite legislative leaders to dinner at the executive mansion, discuss and debate for as long as five hours. Another day he would charge up to the third-floor Capitol office of Assembly Speaker Oswald Heck of upstate Schenectady to argue some more...
Down the River? The toast was premature. Although the Senate seemed to be in hand, 29 assemblymen-nearly a third of the G.O.P. majority-announced (what with elections due next year) that they were still unwilling to support Rockefeller without additional cuts...
Swathed in yards of bandages, mop-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, walked shakily from a Manhattan hospital, an operation on the infected third finger of his right hand a success. Barred from the keyboard for at least two months, tireless Van, who has pounded away at some 90 concerts since his return from Russia last May, seemed almost resigned to trying a slower pace: "My doctor is trying to make me realize I must be more selfish, conserve my energy. If I don't, I won't be able to give anything to anybody...