Word: atom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Short of atom-bombing one's lawn (or one's neighbor's), the only way to fight this infiltration is to get down and pluck. This requires, first, a cold, sharp eye and a strong back. Beyond that, it all depends on the gardener's psychological makeup. One familiar type detests routine plucking, but he keeps alert enough en route to his car in the morning or to the backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss...
...public harassed by headlines, atom-age scientists sometimes seem little more than laboratory soldiers. H-bombs and missiles explode out of their abstruse equations; the products of their most esoteric research are used to refine the practical arts of war. But last week in Washington, D.C. some 2,200 members of the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences met at their spring meetings and read paper after paper to prove that they are still engaged in their principal job, prying into the secrets of the universe...
...supercool atom smasher, operating at temperatures close to absolute zero (-460° F.), may be smaller and cheaper to build, and could operate on far less electrical power than conventional electromagnetic accelerators, said Midwestern Universities Research Association Physicist Dr. Cyril D. Curtis. By using such superconductive materials as niobium-tin alloy (TIME, March 3) instead of huge iron magnets, atom smashers now 1,200 ft. in diameter might be reduced to less than 550 ft., and construction and operation costs could be cut by 35%. Curtis' projection was underscored at the same A.P.S. session when Brookhaven National Laboratory...
...made to feel guilty if he has neither ear nor taste for modern music (but somehow, the artist never seems to feel guilty about not understanding business). No wonder, too, that the adman thinks he ought to be able to write a novel or to know all about the atom. In an absurd misapplication of the ideal of equality, one man's opinions become as valid as another's. Thus, every man competes not only in his own job or his own social setting; he also somehow feels he must compete with the TV newscaster and the editorial writer...
...stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works for someone else. Best of all, he has the rare intensity of talent that seems to transform every atom of Finney into an atom of Arthur...