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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happy or not, the crackpots soon unleashed the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the atomic bomb. Ever since, Los Alamos, like Bethlehem in Judea, has been a place difficult to visit in a neutral frame of mind. Los Alamos is part rich, overachieving exurb beset by worldly goods and ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Alamos: A City Upon a Hill | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Residents claim Los Alamos has the same joys and vicissitudes as any other smallish town. Among the obvious joys are splendid skiing, fishing, riding just minutes away. But to an outside visitor Los Alamos seems uneasy, an unnatural civic transplant of 19,500 souls, where a man is known, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Alamos: A City Upon a Hill | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Absorbed as they are with chat about cyclotrons and linear accelerators, Los Alamos scientists entertain little but avuncular contempt for people who reject the inevitability of nuclear power "until their lights go out." Says a nuclear engineer in S division: "People will believe in myths until the energy and oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Alamos: A City Upon a Hill | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

From its earliest beginnings, the U.S. has been a haven for refugees. But never has the country paid a higher price for this tradition than it has for allowing in the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for treatment of his gallstones and cancer. For nearly a month, 50 Americans have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Early Sunday morning the Shah left the hospital and was driven to New York's La Guardia airport. Accompanied by his wife, he boarded a U.S. Air Force DC-9, which flew directly to Kelly Air Force Base outside San Antonio. The Shah entered Wilford Hall hospital at nearby Lackland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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