Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he endured in childhood-not the numbing poverty of the slum poor but the stinging poverty of the semi-broke genteel. At the time of Stu's birth, his father was a teacher of Romance languages at Massachusetts' Amherst College. But he soon quit as a result of a quarrel with the college president, moved his family to New York, where he studied law at night, scraping a living by translating documents for export-import firms. A few years later, the family moved to Baltimore, where the elder Symington practiced law, winding up as a county judge...
...suspended testing, without any check on possible Russian underground or space explosions, is clearly unsatisfactory. At the year-old nuclear-test talks with the Russians at Geneva (resumed last week), the U.S. has made major concessions without getting any workable inspection agreement. Moreover, the U.S., in recalculating the results of its underground shot in October 1958, has discovered that underground explosions below 20 kilotons (about Hiroshima size) cannot accurately be detected by known seismographic instruments (TIME, Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the U.S. has had to hold up development of "clean" (low-fallout) bombs and smaller thermonuclear weapons. Sample result: a delay...
...offer of Algerian self-determination. Last week came the first military challenge to De Gaulle's authority. It came from the only living Marshal of France-cantankerous, Algeria-born Alphonse Juin, 70, whose once prestigious role in French affairs has diminished over the past five years as a result of ill-timed and ill-conceived forays into military politicking. De Gaulle's offer of self-determination, charged Juin in a newspaper article, was "a bet which cannot come off" and which "has reawakened hope in the rebel camp...
...quoted remark, a transfer student from Smith made a perceptive comparison between the two schools: "Smith is academically stimulating," she said, "but Sarah Lawrence is intellectually more exciting." Whatever validity this comment has is a result of the college's attempt to interest its students in broad ideas rather than in narrow course material...
...excuse me ... my ticket ... check seat ... oh," he observed without result. But soon a chink appeared in the armor, and several people crowded over to allow him a small seat. Looking about him as much as possible without turning his head and making it obvious, Lucius saw nothing but bottles and girls...