Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimously to condemn the experiments. Finally breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a "desolate region totally uninhabited ... in the dead center of the Sahara about 2,750 kilometers (1,709 miles) from Monrovia," and closer in fact to Paris itself. Fallout, insisted the French government, would be "in regions of several hundred kilometers where there is no known life," unlike U.S. experiments within 80 miles of Las Vegas, Russian explosions less than 150 miles from Semipalatinsk...
...bomb? "It would be unreasonable to make such an experiment in the Sahara at the period of greatest heat," said a French official. The heat was of two kinds-the summer sun, which lasts until mid-September, and the September U.N. General Assembly session, where the French face a closer vote on the Algerian question. January seems like better political weather...
...conference came to an unlamented stop after 65 days, Gromyko did begrudgingly drop his insistence on a full list of agreements and disagreements, settled for a routine (the talks had been "frank and comprehensive"), face-saving ("The position of both sides on certain points became closer") communique of a spare 149 words. As their final assignment, the foreign ministers had the tricky job of getting out of .the boat without rocking it. At one point, they got stuck over the problem of whether the West and East Germans at Geneva should be described as "advisers who participated," as the West...
...seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...
...moved through the cathedral with military precision. For the Deutsche mark (24?) entrance fee, each visitor gets a devotional book, a metal lapel badge, and a tiny card that has been touched to the tunic (the garment itself is kept under glass, and most pilgrims get no closer to it than about ten feet). Priests acting as guides keep lines moving by walkie-talkies. Whatever the tunic's real origin, says Trier's Bishop Matthias Wehr, "it has been sanctified by the prayers of centuries...