Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was seated at Ike's right, would hand him a note telling him what to say. "The President should at least, for the sake of appearances, have turned aside and glanced through the note before reading it to the meeting. But instead, he would just take it and read it off. We could not help wondering, comrades and gentlemen, who was running the country. Such a President can make God knows what kind of decisions, and the United States is an enormous and powerful country. One shuddered at the thought of what...
Back in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's Republican Congress passed the Submerged Lands Act that awarded the oil-rich "tidelands" off U.S. shores to the states instead of the Federal Government-just as Ike had promised to do in his campaign. But the law had a basic flaw. It set a three-mile limit for Atlantic and Pacific states, yet allowed the states on the Gulf of Mexico-which has most of the under water oil-to claim up to three leagues (10.3 miles) of offshore land, provided that those boundaries existed "at the time such State became a member...
...ground computer. But when spacecraft begin to work at such distances as Mars, even this sort of wizardry becomes cumbersome. Frorn as far away as Mars, it requires a giant transmitter to send back one yes or no answer per second to a question. Explains Van Allen: "Instead of sending a yes answer in a second, you may have to stretch it out over a minute if the distance and noise level are great enough. It's almost like talking in a noisy room. If you want to make yourself heard, you're much better off trying...
...based on only a handful of buildings. Born on the Estonian island of Osel (Saaremaa), he went to the U.S. at the age of five, showed such promise as an artist that he was twice offered scholar ships at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He chose instead to be an architect, and after studying at the University of Pennsylvania, split his time between teaching and designing a few highly original buildings: a community center in Trenton, N.J., a psychiatric hospital in Philadelphia. The scarcity of commissions has given him time to evolve his own highly poetic approach...
...that they are holding up on new orders while they work off the huge inventories built up right after the steel strike. Despite the auto industry's heavy production schedule, many auto firms still have an inventory of 30 to 45 days, v. the normal 20-day supply. Instead of ordering new steel to keep pace with production, they are taking half their current needs from inventory. Appliance, farm-machinery and construction-machinery industries are also raiding their large inventories instead of ordering steel at their production rates. The oil industry is one of the few that are actually...