Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conduct "effects tests" to discover how well the Minuteman can ride out a nuclear attack in its "hardened," underground silo. Other tests will seek to determine how well the hulls of submarines-including the subs that carry the Polaris missile-will stand up to nuclear attack. Nuclear weapons will be detonated at high altitudes to check the effect on ground communications and radar. In previous tests, ionization caused by nuclear explosions wreaked havoc with electronics gear, raised the possibility that an enemy might try to knock out the electronic network of U.S. defenses by exploding warheads at high altitudes...
...President and the Secretary of Defense have decided that the U.S. does not, despite LeMay's loud claims for the bomber's usefulness. But LeMay plans to continue his one-man war in Congress. This raises the second issue whether or not a military officer should conduct a campaign in Congress to obtain appropriations which his superiors have deemed unwise...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American poetry in 1940 for his "Collected Poems," Van Doren will conduct English Sb, an advanced course in creative writing formerly given by Archibald MacLeish, professor emeritus. He will also give a Humanities course in "The Narrative Art," which will consider three or four major narratives such as the Odyssey and Don Quixote...
...South pinpointing civil rights trouble sports, Marshall described the Justice Department's actions to help Negroes secure equal rights. At the moment, he said, the Department is trying to prevent Mississippi from prosecuting John Hardy, of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, on a charge of disorderly conduct...
...Businessmen will have to produce solider proof that expense-account spending is "directly related to the active conduct" of their business-but the Administration's proposal to put fixed ceilings on expenses was scrapped...