Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause and as a doctrine, protectionism is virtually dead in the U.S. When a cause dies, it does not suddenly vanish; it recedes as a spent wave retreats from a rocky beach, leaving behind scattered little pools. So it is with protectionism...
...posters of a little man loading a Thomson-Houston washer with such enthusiasm that his sole remaining clothing consists of a straw hat and a fig leaf. Such investments in the future have paid off handsomely for Thomson-Houston. Currently, the company is swamped with or ders for short-wave transmitters from new African nations. "It takes over two years to put a transmission facility together." says Chief Engineer Mario Sollima. "We'd be lost if we hadn't prepared...
Despite the puniness of the U.S. shots, Washington had been fearful that they would set off a wave of anti-American, ban-the-bomb reaction and rioting around the world. Against this, the Kennedy Administration had clamped the strictest sort of secrecy on the Christmas Island operations-admittedly more for psychological than for security reasons (after all, the Russians could learn with instruments just as much about these tests as the U.S. learned about theirs). There were to be no eyewitness news reports from Christmas Island, no photographs of mushroom clouds over the Pacific. A medical officer returning from Christmas...
...after 18 years of heading the diocese. Scholarly Rt. Rev. William Forman Creighton, 53, former bishop coadjutor of the diocese, replaces him. Bishop Dun preached his last sermon on Easter before 3,400 worshipers. Recalling it in the true spirit of his cathedral, he says: "I felt a little wave of being slightly moved, and I thought, 'That's the last time I'll walk in with the trumpets and the pomp.' It gives one a little sense of mortality." With help from on high, a cathedral under construction in Britain got a finishing touch...
...years old (even the low-slung staircases are built to discourage adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...