Word: cores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy force dispersed and unseen, everywhere hunted unremittingly, suddenly materializing to strike simultaneously in a hundred places throughout a country. Nowhere was the feat more impressive, or its art more instructively displayed, than in the assault on Saigon, the capital city of 2,000,000 people and the core of the allied commands...
...Core Samples. SAC Major General Richard Hunziker's team-now grown to some 400 men-is using surveyors' transits to mark off a grid pattern around the crash site. As each piece of wreckage is found, it is plotted on the grid to establish the debris pattern that resulted from the crash, and detonation of the conventional explosives in each bomb. The collected debris will be shipped to the U.S. .in sealed containers for burial. The freight will be substantial. "Every piece of debris we've found so far is contaminated," reports Hunziker...
...determine if any of the plutonium-uranium 235 trigger or contaminated wreckage melted into-or even through-the 9-ft.-thick ice in the fire that followed the crash, technicians have taken ice-core samples that will be an alyzed for radioactivity in U.S. and Danish labs. If it is determined that any substantial amount of hot debris penetrated the ice and sank to the bottom of Baffin Bay, 800 ft. below, deep-diving submersibles (TIME, Jan. 19) may be called in to recover it, just as they were in the Palomares crash...
...core of the problem is a disastrous balance of trade: the poor countries are getting lower and lower prices for the raw materials they sell to the industrial powers, while the developed nations are steadily increasing the prices of the manufactured goods they export...
...according to Sizer, professional educators reeling before the size of core-city problems have received little help from Washington...