Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collier, the Jupiter, was renamed the Langley and refitted as the world's first aircraft carrier. Among the first three pilots to touch down on the Langley's flight deck was Mel Pride. Besides Pride, the young seagoing airmen of that time included Arthur Radford, Forrest Sherman, John Dale Price and "Jocko" Clark. They were to participate in the carrier revolution of the 1930s and become famed as the "flying admirals...
...economic superiority does not necessarily mean military superiority, especially in a short war. But the economic advantage of the Western powers, as shown by the analysis, is so enormous and so enduring as to suggest that the West has been underestimating its own relative strength. The report does not touch upon Red China, but other sources estimate the G.N.P. of that country at a mere $35 billion. Since that must first sustain 580 million Chinese, it is doubtful if Red China has available for military purposes one-tenth of what the U.S. is now spending for arms...
Last week, coached by Psychologist Harold Crasilneck, the Southwestern team was using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
...come to my attention a copy of a letter addressed to you from Herbert A. Philbrick, erstwhile informant for the FBI and currently cloak-and-dagger columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate. . . The Philbrick letter, stylistically, appears to be irony, though with somewhat less deft a touch than one likes to see. This is said not by way of criticism--even Swift produced some lemons in his time--but as explanation of the possibility that I might have have misinterpreted Mr. Philbrick's intent. As it stands, the inferences appear to be two: (a) that because the Soviet...
...rodders' wives, G.M.'s Frigidaire division showed off a "kitchen of tomorrow." At the touch of a button, chopping boards and ovens swing into convenient reach, knives are practically handed to the cook. Cooking surfaces fold back into the wall when not in use, hard-to-reach shelves glide down to shoulder level at the touch of a hand, refrigerators automatically serve cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. On one side of the kitchen there is a "home-planner's desk" with a TV set that can be tuned so the housewife can peer into...