Word: dependent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With everyone getting into the swim, Cousteau and his fellow experts fret about safety. They deplore any attempt to set records, either with or without an Aqua-Lung.* Snaps Cousteau: "It does not depend on your ability as a diver. You are just finding out what your physique can stand that day." Last year the Portuguese spearfishing champion, a top-flight French diver and two strong Americans drowned because apparently they blacked out while swimming with held breath, and gulped water. In place of spearfishing competition, Cousteau would like to see surface races between swimmers wearing masks and foot fins...
...Russians dumped 18,000 tons of tin into a saturated world market, hoping to create price chaos. But Malaya, Bolivia and Indonesia, which depend heavily on tin exports, complained bitterly, forced the Reds to halt their dumping...
...Self-Assured. Many perils lie ahead as African colonialism gives way to the ferocity of raw new nationalism across a continent so large that the U.S., India, Pakistan and China together could fit within its boundaries. How it all turns out will depend largely on the new crop of young leaders rising to prominence in the peaceful revolution's wake. They are a mixed lot: clerks, teachers, village firebrands, and bush politicians with considerable native talent but little background or experience for the task of nation-building. Yet they walk onto the world stage with uncommon self-assurance...
...wanted to, says Moore, he could never have matched Startime's muscle: "A show that's too pretentious just isn't my style." With his relatively low budget ($107,500 a show) and his low-pressure approach, Moore reasoned that he could not depend on big names. Now his crew of regulars includes Announcer Durward Kirby, fluttery Marion Lome, Allen Funt, with his candid camera, and Singer Carol (Once Upon a Mattress) Burnett, whom Moore considers "the one major comedy talent among girls to come along in the last ten years." There is also a list...
...belief in inevitable victory is false, the challenge of Soviet achievements in science, technology, education and rate of economic growth is nonetheless real. In the face of that challenge, the U.S. will be in danger if it ever comes to believe that the ultimate victory of freedom does not depend upon the performances of free societies and of free men. "Put your trust in God," said Oliver Cromwell to his soldiers, before crossing a river to do battle, "but mind to keep your powder...