Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senior Democrats on the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy-called last week in strong words for atmospheric tests. Said Anderson: "We must conduct atmospheric tests because the underground tests have not given us all the answers we need." Connecticut's Democrat Senator Thomas J. Dodd demanded a crash program of testing to develop a deadly neutron bomb (TIME, July 7), which scientists still consider several years away from reality. Added Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard B. Russell: It is essential to ''conduct some atmospheric tests-until we perfect the neutron bomb...
After the war, Seaborg served as a member of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, gave his reluctant support to the crash program that developed the hydrogen bomb-a program that split the nation's scientific community. "Although I deplore the prospect of our country putting a tremendous effort into the H-bomb," he said, "I must confess that I have been unable to come to the conclusion that we should...
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...
...lexicon of the dust jacket, writers do not write novels any more; they write major novels. The phrase, once the reviewer's last cymbal crash before his closing chord of adjectives, has become a generic tag, like "short story" and "hot dog." Thus cold frankfurters are cold hot dogs, not cold dogs. Accepting the publishers' ploy, critics must now confront a new literary phenomenon: the insignificant major novel...
Immediate plans call for a "crash program" on about ten Eastern campuses to collect enough money to keep SNCC going until the drive begins...