Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since there is no known way to identify nuclear explosions of small yield underground, the U.S. cannot know if the Russians have really stopped tests. The Russians have tested several high-energy shots this year, one in excess of Hiroshima size, and the U.S. has only the U.S.S.R.'s word that the shots were nonnuclear. Moreover, with their big-thrust rocket engines, the Russians have the capability of testing nuclear warheads without detection in outer space, getting telemetered results much as they did from their moon shots. "We haven't quite lost this fight yet." said one knowledgeable...
...subtle scheming that lies at the heart of football. Says one pro coach: "In college football, all you really need for a defense is a few big tubs of lard in the line. They can't move, and they can't be moved. In pro football, size isn't enough; everybody has it. Defense becomes a game of chess...
Although the number of applicants has increased, there has been no indication the Class of '64 will likewise increase in size. Last year's class of 1,225 students was the largest post-War entering class. Unless additional rooming is available for use by freshmen, however, the Class of '64 will probably be the same size...
...clearly, never really be fulfilled in the limited programs of the present agreement, but the hope must be that they are a first step. Only about fifty people have been exchanged in youth groups, and the closely supervised Soviet tourists have numbered less than five hundred. Groups of this size have little chance of making a serious impression on either nation...
...Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day's luckiest augury was a pair of women's grey suede shoes, size 5½. They nestled in the command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters on the morning of June 4, 1944, D-minus-two. Rommel, charged with throwing back any invasion attempt, planned to ask Hitler for reinforcements during his visit to Germany, but something more personal sent him on his trip. June 6 was his wife's birthday, and the Desert Fox planned...