Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...described as the "poor, meandering old President") and inflexible old men in France and Germany. Fortnight ago, when NATO's General Lauris Norstad temperately pointed out the dangers to the West of military disengagement in Central Europe, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror exploded with a frontpage blast headlined MEDDLING AMERICAN GENERALS. Bawled the Mirror: "Marshal Stalin (who was not even a real general) died in 1953. Now there is a new menace -the loudmouthed American generals...
...harsh fact before Mao and his colleagues was that the great leap forward had actually brought China close to economic chaos. By concentrating the nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign to produce pig iron and steel in homemade blast furnaces-the Communists had created labor shortages in agriculture and industry, had so snarled China's inadequate transportation network that shipments of food and vital raw materials into the big industrial cities had dwindled to trickles...
...runs a 29-minute movie called Help Wanted, made by the big (375,000 members) International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Its purpose: to blast General Electric Co., whose decentralization program (TIME, Jan. 12) has created heavy, if temporary, unemployment in cities where plants were shut down. The film shows troubles in Fort Wayne, Ind., Lynn, Mass. and Bloomfield, N.J. A Presbyterian minister argues: "The profit motive has destroyed the human personality." I.U.E. President James Barron Carey himself pleads for sympathy from G.E. and its shareholders...
...brass" falling back and punctuating the "reed" line with repeated "yeahs!" Farther along, Singers Lambert and Ross took over the role of "trombones," while Hendricks as a solo "reed" came in on every third line. In the finale, the three bundled their heads at the microphone in a blast of harmony: "Dig Basic, and every day he'll blow your blues away, yeah...
...Chance in 200. What Gralla and his crew had come to shoot were three 57-ft. X-17A solid-propellant rockets, each tipped with a 1.5 kiloton atomic warhead (equivalent in blast to 1,500 tons of TNT). Since he had no target to hit except the wide sky, Gralla's job might have seemed simple, but in fact it was fantastically difficult. To enable the rockets to travel 300 miles up, he had to get them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely...