Word: bomb
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...education (although not, like McCormack, for aid to parochial schools), job retraining and financial assistance to Massachusetts' fishing industry. He did not, therefore, think it "appropriate" that he should "also advocate at this time a tax cut." McCormack, obviously trying to woo the ban-the-bomb supporters of Independent Stuart Hughes (see following story), stated: "We should stop production of nuclear weapons. We have sufficient over kill now." Kennedy won applause, even from the pro-McCormack audience, by saying: "I don't think in 1962 we can afford any kind of stepping-back from our strong position...
...President was pushing his luck: in the past eleven months, he has escaped from a gasoline bomb that exploded in flames in front of his car at Pont-sur-Seine, emerged unscathed from a planned ambush at Vesoul, where a six-man "suicide squad" was waiting to kill him with rifles fitted out with telescopic sights. There was even an abortive plot by his enemies to blast him with bazookas on the steps of the Elysée Palace...
Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting Injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning, and by the end of a year it will be almost undetectable...
...electrical engineering and President Kenneth J. Germeshausen, 55, and Executive Vice President Herbert E. Grier, 50, were his research assistants. The three developed a powerful strobe light for high-speed photography, but before they could market it, they were scooped up into World War II research on the atom bomb and sensitive aerial photography. At war's end, they incorporated at the AEC's request. As a small company, the new E.G. & G. let the big AEC worry about finances. Periodically the three gathered up bills and forwarded them to the Government. Recalls Germeshausen: "After all, they...
Until 1952 the AEC was E.G. & G.'s only customer. Then, aware that bomb testing might have a limited future, the three partners decided to spread out. They hired their own auditors and lawyers, as well as buyers and salesmen, marketed commercial equipment based on 64 patents held among the three partners. Ebullient "Doc" Edgerton, who still teaches at M.I.T., developed an underwater light and camera that functions at depths as great as seven miles, tested it on seven cruises with famed French Marine Explorer Jacques Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960). And E.G. & G. even found a foreign...