Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bubbling lava of this decade's news be captured by human understanding and shaped into summary that makes plain sense? Can all the vast perplexities, defeats and triumphs of this time-cold war, Korea, emergent nationalism, threat of mutual nuclear destruction, democracy, prosperity, Hungary, Suez-be reduced to some essential theme? It was done last week in the span of 90 minutes in a space 290 ft. long, 68 ft. wide and 90 ft. high, on precisely the right occasion and in the right place for this achievement...
...pebble puppies sweating in the 130° heat at Hassi Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...
...million bbl.), only 280 miles from Algiers, and the 20 boreholes in the Edjelé field (capacity 700 million bbl.), where the oil is only 1,350 ft. underground. The same applies to the huge natural-gas reservoir at Djebel Berga (2,000,000 cu. ft. a day) and vast storehouses of industrial metals in other areas of the Sahara (TIME, July 1). Plans for railroads and pipelines tapping these resources and bringing them to the sea have been drawn up, but they wait a settlement of the Algerian political problem...
...capital is even more urgent -and even harder to supply. The same factors that apply to Western Europe apply more primitively to the awakening nations of Asia, Africa and South America, struggling to catch up with the world's more industrialized nations. Countries such as India have adopted vast development programs that are based more on artificial paper goals than economic realities. But underdeveloped lands lack the basic industry to create new capital, as well as the savings institutions to channel what money there is into industry. The average Middle Easterner, says one Arab economist, "hides whatever money...
...opening day, Disneyland's assets amounted to $16 million, and Disney took careful aim at the vast U.S. family market. Instead of carnival-type barkers, he hired some 200 teachers as part-time workers, a ns-man crew to keep his park clean. When visitors complained of a 45-minute wait for a few top attractions, Disney spent more than $2,000,000 on new rides to spread out the crowds. Since then, he has conducted 55 public-opinion polls, each sampling 500 to 700 visitors to find out what people do or do not like. Biggest gripe: high...