Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to Rome at the age of 14 and landed a job as office boy in the U.S. Embassy. His budding career in the world of diplomacy nearly ended three years later when he was fired for getting into a fight. But Francesco was a resilient boy. Soon afterward he landed another job in the British embassy and from there went on to change, in his modest way, the course of history. Last week, having long since retired as one of the most successful spies in history, 62-year-old Francesco Costantini told his story for the benefit of readers...
...production and reversals of policy. A few weeks ago, for example, the President explained that the Vanguard project was a minor experiment to be conducted solely by the Navy. The Army's efforts, he continued, must be reserved for the IRBM, the Jupiter C. Shortly, if not immediately afterward, the Secretary of Defense announced that the Army and its Jupiter C rocket would join project Vanguard. In another reversal or at least confusion of policies, the Navy and presumably the Administration gave yesterday's launching all possible publicity, while previous experiments of this nature had little if any such coverage...
Snarled Threads. Seven months before the outbreak of World War 11, scientists in the U.S. learned with alarm that physicists in Germany had succeeded in bringing about atomic fission. Shortly afterward, the U.S. incurred the first major installment of its massive debt to Hungarian-born scientists. Physicist Leo Szilard, leaping in thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic...
...decision, with little chance of winning, and at the cost of ostracism by many of his fellow scientists. He chose to fight, joined forces with Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss in the struggle that pitted them against popular Robert Oppenheimer and split the ranks of U.S. scientists for years afterward...
...soon as headlines proclaimed the news that Lopez Mateos would be the candidate of the government's all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.), hordes of well-wishers and job-seekers swarmed around him. Afterward he slumped into a green leather chair, popped a digestion pill into his mouth, smoked a Strong Delicados cigarette, joked: "Dios! Who wants to be a candidate...