Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...society. "Here in our country," he said in last week's televised speech to the nation, "anyone can buy maps and aerial photographs showing our cities, our dams, our plants, our highways-indeed, our whole industrial and economic complex. We know Soviet attaches regularly collect this information. Last fall Chairman Khrushchev's train passed no more than a few hundred feet from an operational ICBM. in plain view from his window." But openness also has its advantages. It fosters self-scrutiny and public criticism and free speech-more effective restraints against corruption, inefficiency and injustice than any secret...
...disintegrate" as it fell. But in revising the original lie. the Russians bumbled into another one. To explain why the crash did not shatter the plane into small fragments, they said that the U-2 was largely built of unusually lightweight metal (i.e., titanium), and therefore did not fall so very hard. Fact: the U2's frame was not built of titanium, but of ordinary aircraft-grade Duralumin...
...support their suspicions, the Kremlinologists had to fall back, as always, on indirect and fragmentary evidence. At the great May Day parade in Red Square, Mikoyan, for the first time since 1957, was not among the first five Soviet leaders to appear on the reviewing stand. On May 3 the Central Committee magazine Party Life ran an article on "Forty Years of Soviet Azerbaijan." Mikoyan, chief architect of the Bolshevik revolution in Azerbaijan, was not mentioned. Since May 7 Mikoyan has not been seen in Moscow...
...M.I.T. moved toward an in triguing solution: a big-brother relation with small (1,254 fulltime students), distant, little-known Oklahoma City University. Under "The Great Plan," as O.C.U. proudly calls it, M.I.T. will completely revamp the school's curriculum. Supervised by five M.I.T.-recruited professors, O.C.U. next fall will put about 25 bright freshmen in an honors program of high-caliber English, foreign languages, physics and math. By the time the program spreads to all students, O.C.U. hopes to be producing education that matches M.I.T...
...impetus came last fall from Oilman Dean A. McGee (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries), who has long been concerned with improving his state's educational standing. "Industry today goes where it can find knowledge and skill," says McGee, and he wants industry to find those commodities in Oklahoma. When his ideas brought no response from the football-prone University of Oklahoma, McGee turned to neighboring O.C.U. and struck academic oil. An O.C.U. trustee himself, he organized a steering committee of ten other businessmen and O.C.U.'s enthusiastic President Jack S. Wilkes. After a survey of the school...