Word: atom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atom Smashing. But the planes also had their lethal uses. Out of the blue one morning, the Swedish Saabs showed up with guns blazing over the copper-mining town of Kolwezi, 150 miles northwest of Elisabethville on Katanga's only rail line to the Atlantic Ocean. Within minutes, half a dozen railway locomotives and cars were out of action; then, with a roar, the town's main fuel tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of diesel oil, went up in a leaping column of flame and smoke. Near by was the village of Luilu, site...
...officials were still digesting the ominous fact of Soviet nuclear progress when Premier Nikita Khrushchev drove home the point with an atom-rattling, bomb-brandishing speech before a Moscow convention of the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions...
...chairman of its special Committee on World Peace Through the Rule of Law. Said Rhyne: "We must do the seemingly impossible by turning the opinion of most men from the view that our task is Utopian and beyond reach into the view that if man can split the atom and conquer outer space, he can also develop law rules and institutions to achieve and maintain world order...
Outside of its jet interceptors, the 4,600-man Enterprise has no weapons for its own defense, will rely on its speed, maneuverability and the guns and rockets of its shepherding ships for survival in the age of the atom and the missile. The Enterprise is specially reinforced to withstand nuclear attack, can seal itself off below the hangar deck to avoid fallout, and has a washdown system to sluice away the spray from atomic near misses...
...came to Chemist Calvin one day while he was in his car waiting at a traffic light. After that, he and his group were finally able to prove that sugar, the finished product of the process, is built up in six stages, each of which adds a single carbon atom. Now, thanks to Calvin, the chemical action of chlorophyll, on which all life on earth ultimately depends, is fairly well understood, but humans cannot yet duplicate the process in the laboratory. Trying to copy this elegant chemical factory with man's present techniques would be like trying to make...