Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranch house in the Oak Forest section of town, a standard three-bedroom unit furnished with the standard new appliances from the combined incomes of her father, an oilfield-equipment salesman drawing disability pay from the Navy, and her mother, an airlines reservation clerk. But whatever it was they thought they were working for, Diana found it boredom on the installment plan...
...father's old rifle, bought a box of .22 short shells at the Seven-Eleven Store around the corner, methodically test-fired it into her mattress. Then she went to her father's den, turned on the big console television and waited, cool enough, while she thought over her plans to dispatch other members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired brother, 14-year...
...political scientist and military theorist (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy), Henry A. Kissinger, raises that question in the current issue of Foreign Affairs as he goes on to raise another: Even though Russian and Western scientists agree that detection of nuclear-test violations is possible, has the U.S. really thought through the implications of the nuclear-test ban that it proposes to offer to Russia at a conference this month...
Last week, dismayed by this mass exodus, East Germany's Red masters were in full retreat. On second thought, the East German Politburo decided that "the practice of the medical and teaching professions does not require an outlook based on dialectical materialism. Doctors and other intellectuals who have other beliefs can continue their work unhindered." Ulbricht himself, all but begging the intellectuals to stop running away, solemnly promised that henceforth doctors' and scientists' children would be admitted to high schools "even if they have worse school records than children from the working classes...
...announced last week revealed a well-obscured fact about a serious argument between the U.S. and Canada over the question: Should Red China be seated in the U.N.? Most adult Canadians, the poll showed, have only the fuzziest notion of what the argument is all about. A full 11% thought Red China already had a U.N. seat; 41% did not know. Among the minority who did know, 57% favored seating Peking. This meant that in Canada's voting population as a whole, only 27% clearly favor a U.N. seat for the Chinese Communists...