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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great deal of U.S. security and strategy was based. A group of top scientists went to work on a new analysis. Their report: granted a huge concentration of effort, a guarantee of ironclad priorities and some two to four billion dollars, they could, in from two to four years, build the necessary tools for making the H-bomb with a fair chance of success...
...defense of federal power projects, Maass argued that the government can afford to work on an entire river and provide for both flood control and hydro-electric power. Provide companies usually build dams for power, since flood control brings in no revenue...
...nation," cried Soekarno, "and we pray that we may live as a single free nation . . . We want to build a strong nation, prosperous and orderly ... I appeal to you all to show our hospitality to our foreign guests, including the Dutch." As Soekarno turned, walking between the graceful Ionic columns into the executive mansion, one foreign diplomat waved in the direction of the crowds and said to a colleague: "Could the Dutch ever have held this, in the face of that...
...performance they had ever heard before. The voices were familiar: Melchior and Traubel sang the title roles. But the performance seemed to have a new sweetness and clarity, a subdued splendor. Says Perlea, "Too many conductors mistake heroic for loud." In Rigoletto, he proved that he knew how to build a musical melodrama without throwing away climaxes. The result: when the real climax came in the last-act murder scene, it was overwhelming. Carmen was the same story; with the pace he gave Bizet's fast-moving tragedy, it seemed to move swiftly without being rushed. By last week...
Harvard opens fire in the 46th annual competition of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League tomorrow night in Princeton's Dillon Gym. It faces a team which got a fine pre-season build-up but which has failed to impress...