Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Cameroons, a California-sized land of steaming coastal plains, rain-sodden jungles and high savanna just above the equator on Africa's West Coast, native Premier André-Marie M'bida finds himself confronted with a reign of terror spearheaded by 5,000 hard-core Communist guerrillas-Led by a Prague-trained Communist named Ruben Um Myobe, first secretary of the Red-front Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons (UPC), the terrorists burst out of the jungles, burn grass huts, shanghai thousands of natives into the forest, murder those who will not go. Their demands...
...this week, a man in a white protective suit will step alone into the spotless puzzle box of the world's most powerful atomic reactor. After he shuts twelve one-ton doors and gives the final signal, giant control rods will lift slowly out of the uranium reactor core to start a sustained chain reaction. At the moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years and $110 million spent...
...expense of such caution was added the extra costs of a deliberate slowdown on construction to recheck everything in the process. For example, the 58-ton reactor core was lowered into place as slowly as three-thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock...
...party, he admitted, "has partly dissolved itself into a nonparty mass," is riddled with disorientation and confusion." Said he, "It is high time to put an end to this." The first step: purge of half the party's 1,300,000 members, which would leave Poland's core of Communists the smallest proportionately in Eastern Europe...
...first-rate physician could earn in private practice. Some schools settle for second-rate teachers. Others compromise by taking on professors halftime, leaving them half a work week to make a living in private practice. Since this leaves no time for research, the best schools insist on a hard core of full-time faculty members. Even so, these are outnumbered by part-time specialty teachers, often unpaid. There are now 331 full-time budgeted positions open in U.S. medical schools, with no qualified takers...