Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outstanding among these special requirements was the need for "greater concentration of effort and improved arrangements within the Government in the fields of science, technology and missiles." That led to the appointment of M.I.T.'s Dr. Killian (see box). It also led to the investiture of William Holaday, already the Pentagon's missileman, as a special kind of official "clothed with all the authority that the Secretary [of Defense] himself possesses in this field, so that no administrative or interservice block can occur...
...leave for the San Francisco airport to catch an outgoing plane. On his trips to the AEC's Livermore lab, 45 miles from Berkeley, Teller dictates letters to his secretary while driving. It is no wonder that Teller has not found time to finish the atomic alphabet (see box) that he started writing for his two youngsters...
...strung, fenced-in Los Alamos colony working with desperate single purpose on the first Abomb. The son of a prosperous German immigrant, he was born in New York City, got his first taste of science at five, when he was visiting his grandfather in Germany and received a gift box of minerals. At Manhattan's Ethical Culture School he completed a year's chemistry course in six weeks-"and then I fell in love with physics because of the sweep of its laws, I suppose. In physics you get glimpses of such harmony and order!" After his Ph.D...
Voters will draw two cards of different colors or shapes. Supporters of Perez Jimenez will drop the affirmative card into the ballot box and leave the booth conspicuously exhibiting the negative card. Leaving the booth without this card in hand will take more nerve than the average citizen is likely to show. It was clear that the ayes would have it, thereby electing Perez Jimenez and his Congress for another five-year term. But just to make sure, the President banned all political meetings, leaflets, emblems, posters, buttons, loudspeakers or speeches...
Locked in a 1-1 tie, the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings battled into the third period of one of the tightest ice hockey games of the season. Then a couple of Rangers were waved into the penalty box. Determined to score a tie-breaking goal, Detroit sent five forwards lunging down ice toward the undermanned Ranger defenses. But before a shot could be fired, the startled Red Wings scraped to a halt. All of a sudden there was nothing to shoot at. The squat goal was still there, but it was turned completely around, its open...