Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...require far greater concessions of national sovereignty to international control and regulation. Earth satellites are circling the globe now in about the same time that it takes to get from Brooklyn to The Bronx by subway.* Since Sputnik, the question 'How high is up?' has taken on vast new significance. While historically sovereign jurisdiction extends to the air above the land, it would be totally unfeasible for such jurisdiction to extend to outer space. International control will be imperative...
...South Pole, nations wrangle over claims but do not bristle with arms. Last week President Eisenhower invited Russia and ten other interested nations to join the U.S. in a treaty guaranteeing that "the vast, uninhabited wastes of Antarctica be used only for peaceful purposes." The U.S., which has made no territorial claim in Antarctica and does not recognize the frequently overlapping claims of seven other countries (Britain, Australia, Chile, Argentina, France, New Zealand, Norway), proposed that the area be left open to all nations for scientific research "for the benefit of all mankind," and pointed to the discoveries already made...
Though there are still some vast TV blanks in heavily populated parts of the world (see map)-notably India, China and southern Africa-antennas are sprouting in unlikely places. A considerable number (27) of stations have been erected by the U.S. armed forces for the families of military personnel attached to air and naval bases, or military advisory groups in far-flung areas. Though their programs are almost entirely old films or filmed shows from the U.S., the natives have rushed to buy sets for themselves, even when they know no English. After an armed forces transmitter went...
...matter of intense popular concern. Many a U.S. male prizes his auto above all other possessions-sometimes even his wife. Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right on the beam; others are wildly exaggerated. President Eisenhower shot a thinly veiled barb at the industry. Senator Estes Kefauver, no man to watch the votes go by, loudly proclaimed that...
...Brotherhood just another sect to divide religious people still further? There is a vast difference between an inclusive Brotherhood, modern in outlook and knowledge, where varying points of view are adjusted in the search for a fuller brotherhood, and the excluding, binding authoritative tradition built up over the centuries about a personal Savior or a chosen people...