Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...students in Russia to marry or keep company with Russians. They make the most of their sheer numbers. In the China Quarterly, Professor Robert C. North of Stanford University tells of talking to one gloomy Soviet engineer who had worked out the possibilities as neatly as a chess problem: "Suppose nuclear war breaks out between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Clearly, we destroy each other, and China wins. Suppose, on the other hand, that a war breaks out between the U.S. and China-what happens then? You Americans drop nuclear bombs on China and kill a few million people...
...root of the problem, says McCrea. is that light does not travel at infinite speed, and other influences such as gravitation are presumably just as slow. So when distant parts of the universe interact by attracting or irradiating each other, they do so only after a long delay...
Hopefully, the officers will solve during the coming year the problem of getting the best paintings submitted and chosen, decide to reinstate photography, and maintain a high standard in the stage offerings--in order to make the decennial Festival of 1961 a fitting milestone in Boston's cultural life
...next to the last word can be said about him-but not the last word. His creations are as opaque as life's; his characters remain inexhaustibly baffling. Next to Jesus, Napoleon, and Shakespeare himself, more may have been written about Hamlet than any other subject. The problem seems simple: Why does Hamlet take so long to kill the King? Goethe's answer was that Hamlet was an intellectual whose habit of "thinking too precisely on the event" sapped his will. Subsequently, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones fashioned a Hamlet with an Oedipus complex whose dilemma was amusingly compounded because...
...appliance industry's problem is not so much a slump as a boom that failed to get off. As one G.E. applianceman explained: "Everybody was elated about the sensational golden '60s that were going to bust wide-open. We got a little over-optimistic." Production cutbacks are the or der of the day. Frigidaire last week laid off 1,150 Dayton-plant employees indefinitely. This week G.E.'s vast $300 million Appliance Park plant in Louisville shut down its refrigerator division for a week, laid off 4,500 workers. This month it will close its large home...