Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such unusual combinations had long been known, it was Fischer and Wilkinson who first identified and explained the structure of a special class of organometallics, called sandwich compounds, that seemed to defy all known chemical rules. In these compounds, Fischer and Wilkinson found, the hydrocarbon molecules hold the metal atom between them, as if in a sandwich...
...Atomic Energy Commission, long a prime target of criticism by environmentalists, is changing. Traditionally secretive, the commission recently surprised its detractors by offering Antinuclear Crusader Ralph Nader access to all its reports on peaceful uses of the atom. New AEC policies have also dismayed the $20-billion-a-year nuclear power industry. The commission has ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to protect fish in the Hudson River by building a costly water-cooling system at a nuclear power plant near Peekskill, N. Y. In New Jersey, the AEC has banned construction of a long-planned nuclear plant because it would have...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH Carrots and Peas by Hollis Frampton, Lemon by Hollis Frampton, Castro Street by Bruce Baillie, Up and Atom by Doug Wendt, Stromboli, by Roberto Rosselini, Oct. 25, at 7:30, $1. A Luta Continua by Robert van Lierop, Barravente by Glauber Rocha...
...apologized to the crowd midway through the set. "Billing is one of those things that is decided in Hollywood," he admitted. "I'd rather follow the atom bomb than Bonnie Raitt...
...State of the Union message, President Nixon stated that "the time has come when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease...