Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named, Minister of Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
...moon is proving useful as well as decorative. The Army Signal Corps announced last week that it is sending Teletype messages by ultrahigh frequency radio bounced off the moon. Transmitted from Benson, Ariz., the waves speed to the moon and reflect from its scratchy surface back to Encino, N. Mex., a total distance of 480,000 miles. Travel time: 2.6 sec. The message could have been received about as well at any place where the moon was visible...
...crime pattern in New York City the heaviest in areas where the birth rate is most prodigious? Does this not reflect a crying need for the dissemination of birth control information, despite the organized opposition of the Roman Catholic Church...
...example, the board noted that Boeing Airplane Co. made a return on "beginning" net worth of about 93%, ruled that it had excessive profits of $10 million. Boeing President William McPherson Allen calls such a yardstick "callously fallacious." He and other planemakers argue that net worth does not reflect the greatest asset of any company: its know-how team of engineers, manufacturers and administrators. Moreover, it neglects the many profitless years of costly drawing-board development, design and prototype testing...
Portia stumbled out of the doorway and riverward with a shudder. Through the crowd of tennis racquets. sweat socks, low leers and pared fingernails, she plowed to the Charles. And, stepping lightly to avoid the couples seeking those several stolen seconds, she advanced to the banks and squatted to reflect on the floating refuge and the distant sails...