Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S scoops were due to nothing less than oldfashioned, door-bell-ring-ing reporting. On the Friday before Christmas, Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley was asked by the editors to investigate a report that the Joint Chiefs of Staff might have reversed their stand on Formosa...
...proponents argued that an H-bomb would cover an area ten times the size of today's atomic bombs, and would demand far less pinpoint accuracy. If the U.S. didn't build it, they said, the Russians probably would. The opponents said there were better ways of spending the money: for example, perfection of methods of delivering the bombs the U.S. already has. They also pointed to promising progress on counter-weapons, arguing that such a staggeringly expensive explosive might never have a chance for delivery...
...Worship Caesar . . ." Next day, in his embassy's tapestry-hung reception room, Cheng spoke less subtly but no less wisely. Britain's recognition of Red China, he said, "is equivalent to burying us while we are still very much alive . . . Homage to force and violence is very dangerous . . . for if you worship Caesar you will have Caesars-and what is worse, their bad imitators . . . One day you will need us again...
...every way the Russian film was less clever technically. "Triumph" had no narrative, but relied solely on visual effect, combined with music, cheers, and short speeches. The commentary of the English voice in the Soviet picture was gross and inadequate, attempting to describe scenes of such horror as to be visually incredible. After a long exposition of the virtue of the Allies in bringing the Nazi leaders to judicial trial, the voice launched into a denunciation of the defense counsels--an interesting commentary of Soviet justice...
Four of the most important conservation problems at present, according to Maass, are power control, soil improvement, the limitation of irrigation from Bureau of Reclamation projects to farms of 160 acres and less, and conflict between the bureau and the Army Engineers...