Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planning translates itself into hardware. This week the first B-52E, an improved version of the B-52, will go to work for SAC; soon will come the B-526, designed to give the alert force 30% more range. The Air Force has contracted for 30 test supersonic delta-wing B58 bombers for phasing in beside the medium B-473. Already SAC has its first operational intercontinental guided missile: Snark, a lumbering air-breather that cannot break the sound barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than...
...Scientists," says a California physicist, "are this century's version of the explorers of earlier times" And yet, as a nuclear chemist says, "most scientists are rather revoltingly normal in their manners and their way of life." These nine leading lights of U.S. science prove both points by their composite beginnings, their curiosities and their achievements. They also prove why the nation's scientific resources are basically sound and promising...
Ironically, Gaillard was only doing in November what he had been unable or unwilling to do as Finance Minister in July. His policy on Algeria was only a watered-down version of the loi cadre proposal that brought Bourges-Maunoury's downfall. Typically, the French Deputies had tried everything else first, brought on a 36-day crisis in the attempt to avoid the inevitable. Admitted one Deputy: 'It was either Gaillard or nothing...
...David O. Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy...
...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-but with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...