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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some ten years into the grey morning-after of independence, and political leaders who had once been dashing conspirators and heroic guerrilla captains have become aging politicians, surrounded by corruption, inefficiency and rivalry. All but the most obtuse are ready to admit that throwing out the imperialists was the easiest part of their job, and concede that they have just about run out of ideas for combatting Asia's measureless poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, disease and administrative chaos...
Seismographic Evidence. Columbia's boyish-looking Jay Orear, 32, who has almost completed a major Columbia survey on inspection for disarmament, challenged Teller on the technicalities. "A nuclear-weapons-test ban is one of the easiest to inspect," he said, and seismographic evidence proved it. Inspecting nuclear production "is most difficult.'' Yet the U.S.'s package plan tied the one to the other and made "the last step" the prerequisite for "the first step." Orear quoted widespread opinion that the whole package plan might be "a gimmick to prevent agreement." A wholly workable international inspection system...
...insects easiest to study in this way are mosquitoes, bees, flies, etc. Dr. Hocking puts one of them on the mill and makes it fly until it is exhausted, which means that its nectar tank is empty. Then he refuels it (a tricky business) with a measured amount of nectar and starts it flying again. When it stops he knows how far it has flown on the fuel that he gave it. Modifications of this experiment enable Dr. Hocking to figure the most economical cruising speed of each insect. Mosquitoes fly most efficiently at 2 ½ m.p.h. Bees cruising...
...rate of capital formation (i.e., reinvested savings) is easiest to express as a percentage of gross national product. On this basis the U.S. saves 17%, the same as France, and slightly more than Britain's 15%. But West Germany saves 22%, Canada 24%, Peru 21%, Austria 24%, Iceland 31%, Norway 29%, Israel 22%, Japan and Italy 20%, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 34%. On the other hand, Chile saves only 8%, the Philippines 7%, Indonesia 5%, and many other underdeveloped countries even less. A rule of thumb is that any country with a rising population must save...
...Triumph. In choosing an orbit for the sputnik, the Russians were daring. The easiest way to put a satellite on an orbit is to launch it toward the east from the equator. This takes maximum advantage of the earth's easterly rotation, and gives the satellite about 1,000 m.p.h. of free speed. The U.S. satellite, launched due east from Florida, would have got about 914 m.p.h. of free speed. The sputnik's orbit, 65° away from the equator, takes it -in Red triumph-over nearly all of the inhabited earth. (The U.S. satellite would have stayed...