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Turning to the world problems of security accentuated by the unleashed powers of science represented by the atomic bomb Conant concluded his address by calling for intelligent people to become oriented to the world in which we live. "We've got to live with the problems of the destructive power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manageable Problems Must Get Attention, Says Acheson | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

Juan Perón went right on using food as an instrument of policy. Peru, dependent on Argentina for its meat, got some 40 tons last month, and Lima shoppers spent hours hacienda cola (sweating out the line) outside butcher shops. Last week, as a result of Argentine manipulations, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: The Interventionist | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

In Outer Mongolia, said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at a Chungking press conference, a plebiscite was under way. It was being conducted under the terms of the Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Sept. 3), which gave Outer Mongolia's one million Soviet-oriented, cattle-raising tribesmen the right to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plebiscite & Plunder | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

On a ship, radar is insurance against collision with icebergs, rocks or other ships; it can take a vessel at full speed through a crowded harbor and dock it in the foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radar | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Re-educating Joe. During each of his seven to 14 days of luxury the soldier can do anything he likes for 20 or 22 hours. The other two to four hours G.I. Joe spends being "thoroughly oriented to the realities of the situation confronting us" so that he may "have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Soft Beds and Hard Facts | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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