Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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South Africa's "realists" (white Nationalists) are the wave of the future. TIME (and others) should realize that it was the realistic element of our world that did all the building, inspiring, and gave the leadership that brought us to our present high level of civilization...
...prevailing mood of optimism. It sprang in part from the human tendency of statesmen to congratulate themselves on the mere absence of crisis; in part from the West's prosperity, with its assurance that, economically, Western democracy was outperforming Communism; and in part from the fact that at present the world's great issues are dormant...
...days, London and Paris were headquarters for the hot-eyed young African nationalists in search of learning, eager audiences and cash for the worthy cause back home. Today they still stop off in such European capitals long enough to present their independence demands to colonial ministers, but more often than not, they are headed westward to a new mecca of funds and sympathy...
Scrounged Parts. Only one satellite is needed for an accurate navigational fix, but when the Navy's system is operational in 1962, four satellites will crisscross in a synchronization planned to serve all quarters of the earth. The advantage to commercial shipping will be slight, since present methods are more than adequate. But the military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will...
Hence there is reason for surprise at the present fervor of Harvard undergraduates. At no time since the Thirties, and certainly not since the collapse of post-war idealism in 1948, has such a wave a political activism swept Cambridge. The sudden appearance, within a few months, of the single issue clubs—LCIC, SANE, 1001(f), and the Capital Punishment Committee—is tending to make obsolete the charge of “student apathy...