Word: also
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also started a craze for the pseudohistorical country-and-western ballads that the industry sometimes refers to as "saga songs." At odd hours of the day or night, 40-year-old Jimmie Driftwood takes up his guitar and plunks them out with the ease of a molting rattler shucking its skin. His most recent inspiration came to him via a radio newscast while he was touring the Ozarks in his air-conditioned Buick one hot day this summer. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, he heard, would soon be a visitor to the U.S. Jimmie began to sing, his wife Cleda...
...moon has no magnetic field. This was the major scientific finding made by Lunik II. The Lunik's instruments also failed to find any Van Allen radiation circulating around the moon. This was consistent. The earth's Van Allen radiation is made of ionized particles trapped by the earth's magnetism. If the moon has no magnetism, it should have no radiation...
...rival moon shot is off for another month at least. The Atlas ICBM that was especially rigged to boost a 375-Ib. payload around the moon in early October blew up last week at Cape Canaveral during a static test of its engines. It not only destroyed itself but also the second-stage rocket perched on its nose, and wrecked the launching...
...Alamos' Omega West is a swimming-pool-type research reactor whose fuel rods are suspended under 25 ft. of water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding...
With a roster of 23 Americans (including four M.D.s. four science Ph.D.s) and 155 Chinese (including three Formosan M.D.s, one Ph.D.), Namru-2 is also at work on a variety of other projects...