Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plain is more of the same, although here and there the pickle-barrel philosopher scrapes bottom. The new book offers nothing as trenchant as Only in America's "Vertical Negro Plan," which solves the problem of painless school integration by removing seats from classroom desks-on the theory that white Southerners think nothing of associating with Negroes when they are standing in elevators, supermarket queues, and the like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea...
...string of limousines pulled up. Out stepped the President of the U.S., the Vice President, Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a retinue of other officials. Waiting to greet them at the Coliseum's main door was a barrel-stout man with iron-grey, curly hair and a broad smile: Frol Romanovich Kozlov, 50, First Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R.. the Kremlin's No. 2 man. sent by Nikita Khrushchev to officiate at the opening of Russia's flashy exhibition of science, technology and culture (TIME...
Bottom of the Barrel. The Beacon's circulation reached its peak in 1949 (106,757 v. the Eagle's morning-evening average of 58,000), has since fallen off to 98,311, while the Eagle has built itself up to an 88,455 average. But the real result of the vicious war between the two papers is that both have settled to the bottom of journalism's barrel. Trying to outdo each other in sensationalism, they reach desperately for banner headlines, inflate in significant news, and spend most of their time shrieking at each other...
...destroyer fished the cone out of the water. It was the second consecutive nose-cone recovery after a shot of intercontinental range, providing data on re-entry protection for both men and weapons. The Air Force's description of the shot's accuracy: "Right down the rifle barrel...
Modern prospecting has matured into a science, though man has yet to find a direct method of finding oil. The chances are still long. Only one wildcat field in 42 produces 1,000,000 bbl., and costs are so steep that a million-barrel field barely pays for itself. With risks growing higher and winnings less, fears have cropped up that the U.S., with only a twelve-year known reserve, will run dry of oil. Oilady Knowles disagrees: "Ever since Edwin Drake's discovery 100 years ago, there have been fears of a shortage. Each time...