Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freeze & Pry. Californians are proud of their university network, and well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Cal's physicists run one of the world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios...
...long last, Parliament received his blueprint for an all-French atomic striking force, currently known in France as the force de frappe. At a cost of $1.3 billion over five years, De Gaulle's program would provide 50 medium-range bombers, a handful of atomic missiles and an atom-powered sub. The plan's reception was hostile. Members of the finance and defense committees pointed out that such a meager atomic force would cost a lot of money but still not give France parity with the U.S. or the Soviets in the "atomic club." Other critics pointed...
...photographer good and modest is his dedication to his work." Last August Karsh was just sitting down with a dinner party of illustrious scientists and educators in his home, near Ottawa, when he received a call from Washington. "There were enough brains in my home to have split an atom. But I had to get my picture." Karsh excused himself, hurried to Washington, where he had appointments to photograph Vice President Nixon and Democratic Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Nixon missed the sitting, but Karsh expects to return to do him within the next fortnight. Since the U.S. conventions...
...Howard DeWolf, B.U. professor of Theology, compared the world situation to a ship at sea carrying two gangs of desperadoes, each armed with deadly explosives. DeWolf called for a Project Mankind as a peaceful analogue to the wartime Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb...
...have to drop the atom bombs on Japan...