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Tracing the recent evolution of parachuting, Istel noted that the ranks of 'chustist has swelled from a handful in 1955 to "between 50 and 70,000 today." Commenting on film clips of jumping in California he observed that skydivers can vary their speed of fall, and can reach speeds of...
World War II turned San Diego from a city of 289,348, sleepily content to live off its famed naval base, into one of the nation's major aircraft producers. The boom grew louder after the war, with the demand for new planes for the burgeoning airlines and the...
The white communities arguement is that integration will come "through evolution rather than revolution." One might answer that the hiring of a few Negro sales-girls and floor-sweepers in white-owned shops hardly constitutes a revolution, but to say such things is to talk to oneself. Reason is no...
Like James Joyce or Sigmund Freud, the late Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist, has become an inescapable intellectual presence of the age. Until, and even after, his death in 1955, the Vatican forbade the publication of his nonscientific works, largely because he accepted evolution as the key...
The Cops Move In. In any other Western country, the demands of the resolution proposed by Madariaga and the other Spaniards at Munich would have seemed innocuous enough. But they were dynamite in Spain: the establishment of democratic institutions based on the consent of Spain's citizens, the right...