Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...practical defeat at the Chicago convention, was based on the belief that the parties are not drifting toward the center but that the bulk of the American people are conservative in the Goldwater sense--a very special sense, as I shall indicate below. Chester Bowles' The Coming Political Breakthrough, on the other hand, refers in its title to a new national political consensus on extremely liberal lines, which Bowles believes is about to take shape in the 1960 Presidential campaign. Neither Goldwater nor Bowles, I think, is correct in his evaluation of the current American political temperament...
There is a lot of value in this historical analysis; the difficulty is that Bowles thinks that the fourth breakthrough is taking place right now. Much as I with that this were true, I can see no evidence for any such contention. Past breakthroughs" have been connected with some major issue or event, like slavery or the Great Depression; although many important problems face us today, nothing so spectacular or disturbing is in the mind of the electorate. It seems to me that we are still very much in the period of jockeying, and that this is an election...
...memory"-or learn a new task just as quickly. In the machine and tool industry, where techniques change so slowly that an exposition is held only twice a decade, the numerical-control machines brought forth a babble of superlatives, such as "the sunburst of a new era," "a stupendous breakthrough." Where it now takes a day to "set up" a lathe or other machine before it can begin turning out parts, the new machines can be ready to work in minutes, switch easily from one job to another...
...marvels eclipsing even what the U.S. has accomplished since World War II. Within a year or two, electronic ovens may be available for every home. They will cook a steak in two minutes, a baked potato in four seconds, greaselessly so that the oven never needs cleaning. An ultrasonic breakthrough in the use of sound waves for cleaning promises dishwashing in minutes without water. Shoes and clothes may be whisked spotless ultrasonically as the wearer enters the house...
Fuel Cells & Rocket Belts. The next major U.S. inventive breakthrough comparable to the transistor may well be the fuel cell-a cheap, efficient, reliable way of converting fuel to electricity with no moving parts. Some 50 U.S. companies are working on the problem; when it is solved, it will provide a compact, noiseless power source for propulsion, lighting, heating, may even bring back the electric auto. The ancient dream of man, individual flight, perhaps with a scuba-like rocket belt, is under serious development. The U.S. Army has awarded Bell Aero-systems a $60,000 research contract for a rocket...