Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail, the Western proposals showed a willingness to negotiate, not merely an eagerness to propagandize. Those whose trade it is to analyze documents could see in this one an impressive vision of a sensible European future, and that momentary glimpse of what Europe might become made Geneva seem less tawdry, even if no more hopeful...
...This vision of the future is not science fiction but a serious project announced this week by Raytheon Manufacturing Co., maker of all types of radar. Raytheon believes it has achieved the longtime dream of engineers: the transmission of electrical power by radio waves...
...Trees in 1904 found an arrow carved in a rock in West Virginia, heard a tale that it pointed to treasure buried by pirates years before, sighted along it and drilled a 3,000-bbl.-a-day producer. In the same state, hearing of a blind farmer's vision of oil spouting over his maple tree, they drilled on the spot, found a 300-bbl.-a-day well. In Illinois, following the directions of a blind judge who had developed his own theory on oil finding, they drilled near Robinson, started the heaviest land rush since Texas, and enriched...
...popular U.S. car. His reward was the presidency of General Motors. Three years ago, Big Bill Knudsen's son, Semon Emil Knudsen, took on a similar job: he was made boss of G.M.'s sputtering Pontiac division, thus became, at 43, G.M.'s youngest auto-di-vision boss. Pontiac was the weakest of all the auto divisions, languishing in sixth place in overall U.S. car sales. Last week "Bunky" Knudsen's hot-rodding Pontiac was at the top of the medium-price field, with 30% of that market; sales were up (117% in April...
...seems to have wearied of the battle. A few years ago, the author of Darkness at Noon announced: "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change." Lately, the polemicist has turned pedagogue. The Sleepwalkers is an animated and diverting lecture on cosmology, man's vision of the universe from the Babylonians to Newton...