Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Britain quit to ban the bomb and Miss U.S.A. wailed: "My mouth is actually sore from smiling." But the smiles were just beginning for the grocer's daughter from Argentina, who proved to have the most universal appeal at the contest in Miami: Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe of 1962, a rare blend of Irish, Italian and Spanish, statistically 24, 5 ft. 6 in., 120 lbs. and 35-25-36. The perquisites of office are $15,000 cash and a $7,000 mink coat; the duties include promotional tours of Portugal, Korea, Canada, Mexico and all points south...
Shot after shot in Strangers defies mental erasure: grey, panoramic views of Manhattan steaming like a witch's cauldron; two boys slugging it out in a hysteria of violence in one of those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime...
Battle for the Bomb. Strauss was one of few in the Government to argue against using atomic bombs on Japan; he contends that U.S. policymakers knew Japan wanted to surrender long before they dropped the atomic bombs. But Strauss had no doubts about the need for the U.S. to keep ahead in the nuclear arms race. Shortly after his appointment to the AEC in 1946, he recommended building a monitoring system to detect Russian atomic blasts. At the time, most people thought a Russian atom bomb was years away; Strauss had to plead, push, finally offered...
...recent improvements in seismic instruments and methods of using them. One new method is to lower instruments as much as 10,000 ft. into abandoned oil wells. At this depth they are sheltered from surface noise and are five to ten times more sensitive to earth waves from bomb tests or earthquakes. Another promising system is to spread out many instruments in cross-shaped array on the surface of the earth. When their readings are compared to eliminate the effects of noise, traces of earth waves be come much clearer...
...detailed results of official U.S. and British experiments with new seismic instruments have not yet been made public, but nonofficial seismologists state emphatically that earthquakes and bomb tests are quite different, that they send distinctly different wave patterns through the earth. Another important difference is that most earthquakes are caused by rock movements many miles below the surface. This vertical distance can be measured accurately; if it is too great, the waves almost surely will not have come from a test. It is not likely, say the seismologists dryly, that even the most industrious Communists will explode secret tests...