Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Noah of modern times is the natural scientist. As the human deluge threatens to drown the lesser species, he cries his warning: Man is a part of nature; destroy nature and you destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers...
Fort Smith, Ark...
...design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis, Ark., right in the jealously guarded public-power domain of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He outraged stop-the-tests advocates by urging continued nuclear tests, with emphasis on developing "clean" weapons...
...months the schools of Little Rock, Ark. have deteriorated under the segregationist pressure of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. By closing the four high schools, integration has been stopped cold, and this school year some 3,086 high school students have been forced to find private or correspondence schools. The remaining 579 students have attended no classes since fall and have had but one school function-playing football...
Last week's ceremony took place in the chapel of Temple Israel in the presence of Convert Taylor's parents. Facing the open Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Scrolls, she answered the ritual questions put to her by Rabbi Nussbaum. Among them: "Do you promise to cast in your lot with the people of Israel amid all circumstances and conditions?" "Do you agree to rear your future children according to the Jewish faith...