Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind all the diplomatic jockeying, the week's big news was still that the U.S. had done something that only a year ago the Administration had said it would never do: it had stopped its own tests primarily on good faith, without any provision for inspection-and the stoppage made many a policy-planner uneasy. Last week Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone admitted at his first press conference what he had long argued in private (TIME. Sept. 1)-that stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential...
Grated Carrots. Behind the court-martial was a tender Army sore spot. Needled mercilessly for "wasting" the nation's young scientific brains in routine basic training, the Army high command had set up a policy of assigning draftees with some scientific education to special groups such as the Enlisted Scientific and Professional Personnel. Fresh from campuses and freer academic life, the ESPPs kicked hard against regimentation, cut sloppy military figures, took to hissing noncoms and arguing with officers...
...lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come...
...North America's deepest mine. Exhausted rescuers still hacked through rubble at a painful 1 ft. per hour, but the women stopped coming to the pithead. Some families bought cemetery plots for their men. The newsmen left for other stories, and the coal-grimed town nursed its grief behind closed doors, wondering dully what it would do now that DOSCO (Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., Ltd., subsidiary of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.) planned to close Springhill's last mine and major industry...
...Reason behind this unlikely procedure is the pest's fatal weakness: the female mates only once. If a female happens to mate with a sterile male, she will lay nothing but infertile eggs for the rest of her short (three weeks) life. The U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists concluded that if males could be sterilized and released in large number, they would find the fertile females, mate with them, and thus eliminate them permanently as progenitors...