Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Development tests of new weapons. Ogle's scientists will be trying to improve the vital weight-yield ratio-a bigger blast from a smaller package. Special attention will be paid to the nuclear warhead of the Nike Zeus, the missile being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...
...strike was a landmark in the unfolding history of the New York union's parent, the 75,000-member American Federation of Teachers. In cities across the country where teacher morale is low, the A.F.T. is outstripping its bigger "professional" rival, the 765,600-member National Education Association, which shuns strikes and collective bargaining. Last week's strike may well stiffen U.S. school boards against the union. But it did produce phalanxes of traditionally timid teachers mad enough to hit the bricks like miners and dockers...
...Bigger but not better, the National League still divides easily into contenders and also rans. Centrifuging out at the bottom are the Phillies. For four years they were building and finished in the collar. So at last `they've traded some young hopefuls for the fat, faded, Roy Sievers. If Art Mahaffey's capricious arm goes, the record of 33 straight losses which they struggled to establish last summer is in jeopardy...
Such prolonged separation is a bigger service problem than it once was, since about 85% of all officers and 40% of enlisted men now are married. Instead of the carefree, hard-living G.I.s of old, whose greatest peacetime conquests often occurred in bars and bordellos, today's settled-down servicemen average 2.8 dependents each. When the travel ban was ordered, 320,000 dependents were already in Europe, and thus were not affected; they still receive Government housing or allowances. Since the order, 56,000 servicemen sent abroad have been separated from their families; another 19,000 somehow found...
...Though hardly embarrassing to Tito, other fascinating snatches of Stalin's conversation with Djilas: "Churchill is the kind who, if you don't watch him, will slip a kopeck out of your pocket. And Roosevelt? He dips in his hand only for bigger coins." "The West will make Western Germany their own, and we shall turn Eastern Germany into our state . . . We shall recover in 15 or 20 years and then we'll have another...