Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killed because he knew too much.* ¶ The dictator lavished $20 million on the clubs of his Union of High School Students, favoring teen-age girls with gold wrist watches and nylons before eventually choosing one 14-year-old, Nelly Rivas, as his special favorite (TIME, Oct. 10). ¶ Atomic "Scientist" Ronald Richter, who never split an atom, expertly diffused $3,700,000 of Argentina's money in his fumbling attempts. ¶ Jorge Antonio, Mercedes-Benz tycoon and Perón crony, profiteered on so vast a scale that a subcommittee named exclusively to investigate him seriously recommended...
Ever since airpower became a factor in modern warfare, military strategists have dreamed of a warplane with no practical limit to its cruising range. Even when physicists scoffed, the dreamers started investigating atomic power as a feasible power source. This week there were new indications the U.S. is moving closer than dreams to building an atom-powered aircraft...
...that the troublesome weight problem-elaborate radiation protection is needed for the crews-may be whipped, or nearly so. Another sign: the Air Force plans to construct a multimilliondollar, 15,000-ft.-long runway at the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Its probable use: testing of atom-powered aircraft...
Stored Sunlight. Scientists have long known that sunlight striking the atmosphere 60 miles above the earth breaks two-atom oxygen molecules (62) into single oxygen atoms. Normally the single atoms recombine when they come into contact with nitric oxide as a catalyst. Since there is only a tiny trace of this gas in the high atmosphere, they recombine slowly, releasing enough energy in the process to produce a hardly perceptible glow in the night...
...issues of 1956, said Stevenson, are "the great problems of our time, war and peace, what to do with the uncontrolled atom, how to meet the Communist challenge, how to provide better schools, health, highways, how to restore the farmer's wellbeing, how to conserve and develop our natural resources, the relation of Government to its citizens, and the gathering crisis in the relations of Americans to each other...