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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after World War II that Kennan, the Russian expert, came into his own. As Counselor of the Moscow embassy, he coached Ambassadors W. Averell Harriman and Bedell Smith. Back in Washington, he became head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in 1947. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X," he wrote, in Foreign Affairs, his famous article, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Destined to be the field manual of cold-war diplomacy, the article outlined the "containment" policy which has been the basis of U.S. strategy. "Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world," said Mr. X...
...experts began with a painstaking study of the painting's twelve panels with microscope and X-ray photographs. Then they impregnated the surface with beeswax, and flattened out blisters with warmed spatulas. With mild solvents, they removed centuries of varnish (sometimes twelve layers deep) and retouchings, and they scrupulously avoided doing any retouching of their...
...sides, top, and bottom of the basic still, with which we shall deal, are made of tin. Take any large can and jump on it soundly. If it does not squash immediately, repeat the process. When you have flattened the can, cut it into two squares, 2" x 2", and into four rectangles, 3" x 2". Take one of the squares and call it the bottom piece. Either square will...
...meet conditions on the surface of the earth, where the temperature varies only slightly and the pull of gravitation varies hardly at all. The atmosphere provides a steady supply of oxygen, while its cushioning bulk over head protects man's delicate hide from nearly all meteors and ultraviolet, X and cosmic rays. For man to leave this sheltered environment is as difficult as it was for his fishlike forerunners to slither up on to dry land...
Hicks bombarded laboratory rats in the second and third stages of pregnancy with X-rays up to 300 roentgens. The radiation effects caused the rodents' off-spring to be born with defective brains and spinal cords...