Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense of accomplishment seemed to be bigger than all the troubles. M-K finds that it can get good men to work overseas for little more than they make at home, partly because they usually pay no income taxes. But they also seem to get satisfaction out of helping backward peoples help themselves...
...experiments with certain gadgets to reverse the thrust of a jet engine. The type that finally worked best for Boeing is a divided, clamshell-like contraption that normally fits snugly around the end of the tailpipe. When the airplane has touched the ground, the halves of the clamshell swing backward and inward, cutting the blast of hot gases and partially reversing its direction...
...Looking Backward. But one or two traditional German specialty items are missing from Dr. Erhard's export program, as Chile's crusty old (76) President Carlos Ibanez belatedly learned last week. "Tell the Minister" huffed the general to his interpreter, "that I wish we may soon exchange Chilean and German officers to work in our armies and arms factories." Without batting an eye, Erhard said: "Tell the President that there is no German army . and military plants have been forbidden for many years...
...this point, Dulles took a look backward: "I believe that the original Korean attack would not have occurred if it had not been assumed either that we would not react at all, or, if we did react, would react only at the place and by the means that the aggressors chose...
...music by Jerome Moross; words by John Latouche) is a slightly offbeat musical, given a slightly off-Broadway production (by the new, knowledgeable lower Second Avenue Phoenix Theater-TIME, Dec. 14). All in all, it makes what's on-beat take a beating, and Broadway seem a little backward. The Golden Apple transports the Trojan War set, with considerable irreverence, to the U.S. around 1900-specifically, to a small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan...