Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Pacific's Polynesian culture; in Honolulu. Born to an Irish father who married a Maori tribal princess, Buck led the hard-fighting Maori troops in World War I. He wrote about Polynesians in Vikings of the Sunrise, helped the U.S. Navy resettle Polynesians who left Bikini to make way for the atom bomb tests...
...Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs of themselves clad only in scanty Bikini bathing suits would be more effective...
...Hercules and Orpheus embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today's "Bikini" style of undress...
Five years ago at Bikini, bombs had been detonated underwater and dropped from planes. This time, all the charges-and the AEC would not give the number -were fired from steel towers that vaporized in the fierce heat of the explosions. Radio-guided, pilotless planes flew in & around the blast areas, carrying sensitive instruments to register a wide variety of effects. On the ground, close by the tall towers, other devices responded to events that took place in less than a millionth of a second, transmitted their observations to remote recorders before vanishing in the swirling turbulence. Pigs, dogs...
...David Bradley is a physician (not a physicist) who attended the Bikini atom-bomb tests in 1946 and wrote the atomic scare-book, No Place to Hide. Last week, more scared than ever, he told an audience at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, that one of the recent atomic explosions in Nevada was 500 times more powerful than a conventional (or Model-T) Abomb. Therefore, reasoned Bradley, it must have been a hydrogen bomb. He based both premise and conclusion on the fact that the bomb broke windows in Las Vegas, nearly ten times farther from the explosion than...