Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conceivable objectives of surface testing include development of cheaper, more powerful, and more efficient warheads, try-outs for anti-missile missiles, and refinement of the "clean bomb." Tactical atomic weapons can be tested underground. A cursory examination of the technical factors suggests that the United States can afford to avoid surface testing...
...months after his junta took over South Korea in an almost bloodless coup, Lieut. General Park Chung Hee, a puritan in olive drab, is making an unprecedented effort to clean out his country's age-old corruption and laxness...
...several near-polar routes take its planes through fresh radioactive clouds from the Russian tests. According to the Public Health Service, which checks Pan Am's planes, they are already ten times as radioactive as before the Russian tests started. The radioactive material does not cling to smooth, clean surfaces. It nestles in places where the air stream makes abrupt turns. Oily spots, which are sometimes unavoidable, catch the hot particles, which also lodge inside jet engines...
...College (oldest U.S. Catholic women's campus) to the skin-tight skirts, bouffant hairdos and rainbow eye shadow at the University of Miami. When the sun shines at the University of Texas, every female foot seems to be in black loafers. When it rains, out come clean white sneakers. At Northwestern, the uniform is dirty white sneakers and full skirts above the knee; at Reed, some girls go barefoot. Skirts are so short at U.C.L.A. that a nervous professor recently announced: "Move back or leave class until I blacken the lower half of my glasses...
Unistrut Products Co. of Chicago, a movable-wall-panel builder, is doing a booming business in 99% dust-free "clean rooms" for companies that make critical missile parts...