Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GUIDANCE SYSTEM for missiles that defies enemy jamming has been developed by American Bosch Arma Corp. for Titan ICBM, and company will adapt it for use in Atlas ICBM. Air Force calls system a "major breakthrough," is now planning to give sizable new Government contract to American Bosch...
...success for the power lodgment in the Middle East that the Soviet Union hopefully sees itself about to win. The Western powers had agreed to a summit meeting with Russia about the Middle East; and the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad all saluted this as a great Soviet breakthrough. "The Arabs are not Marxists," said Nikita Khrushchev last week. "But we hail them. National liberation is the first step...
...regard for what it communicates. The absence of any recognizable visual imagery has struck many critics and philosophers, like Theologian Paul Tillich, as a cult of meaninglessness, proof of "the emptiness of our existence in industrial society." Other critics have an entirely different perspective, see in the abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many...
...Chromosomes. For a while, as often happens after a scientific breakthrough, additional discoveries came easily. Several biologists, notably Walter S. Sutton in the U.S., connected Mendelian inheritance with the known behavior of chromosomes, which are threadlike bodies in the nuclei of cells. When a cell divides nonsexually, as in a growing plant or animal tissue, the chromosomes replicate (make copies of) themselves. Each daughter cell gets a full set, and unless something has gone wrong, it is exactly like the chromosome set of the parent cell (see diagram...
Magic DMA. Since the Neurospora breakthrough, chemical genetics has made startling progress. Its most important movement has been down the scale of size toward the actual chemical molecules that control life and reproduction...