Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indicating another way that military projects can help academic research, the State University of New York last week bought two $8,500,000 surplus Atlas missile silos for $667 each. SUNY will use the silos to study the effects of cosmic rays on the aging of fruit flies and white rats. The Government has sold eight other surplus missile sites to educational institutions including Kansas State and Colorado State universities...
...from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes in the Kwajalein lagoon...
Because Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives. "Objectivist" Ayn Rand, who believes that all human activity should be self-serving, refuses even to appear in the same room with Buckley because the Review panned her novel Atlas Shrugged. Max Eastman resigned, with barbs on both sides, after he accused Buckley of tying conservatism too closely to religion...
...DAVID ATLAS Syracuse Sir: Like many people on this side of the Atlantic, I have for long suffered misgivings about the U.S. role in Viet...
Renovating Islam. Potentially, the most fruitful ground for discussion, ecumenists suggest, is not theology but the search for common religious solutions to pressing worldly problems. A notable advocate of this approach is the Benedictine monastery of Toumliline, in Morocco's Middle Atlas mountains, which for eleven years has sponsored annual meetings of Moslem and Christian thinkers from dozens of countries. The sessions deal broadly and impartially with major contemporary themes, such as the problems of youth and cities. Purpose of the meetings is to encourage Islam to face these issues from the perspective of its own traditions. Says...