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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than an hour before they could come out safely). From an observers' stand a quarter of a mile away, photographers got what may be history's best view of the business end of an oncoming missile. Explanation of the failure: an inverter did not feed current into the guidance system, and so the bird flew aimlessly. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, lamented that the failure "probably has set our kind of scientific research back ten years," because the misfire cost scientists a priceless opportunity to study...
Finding the bomb is the least of it. Most German bombs had an electric fuse charged by current flowing through a long telescopic arm at the moment of release. When the bomb hit the ground, the shock worked a "trembler switch" that touched off the bomb's main charge. After 14 years, these electric fuses are dead, but what about the clockwork fuses used to back them up? Answer: a magnetic clock-stopper to freeze the mechanism...
...first abnormal cells get that way? The experts cannot agree. Columbia University's Dr. Samuel Graff expresses the current consensus: all cancerous cells are the result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma rays, ultraviolet light, many chemicals, including some of the huge class of hydrocarbons, physical irritation of tissues, and certainly in some animal cancers by the invasion of a virus. There may be other, still unknown factors causing mutation...
Under the old system, business transactions and-government appropriations were made in astronomical figures (current French budget in old francs: 6,189,000,000,000). But the changeover poses new problems. Despite plenty of warnings, some Frenchmen are sure to write checks after July 15, the changeover day, without marking N.F. (New Francs) in front of the figures. Shopkeepers may try to raise prices under the guise of rounding off the price of an article that cost 450 old francs to a simple five francs in the new currency. To prevent this, the government for a time is requiring...
...Socialism did have its fling in Britain and its hour as part of coalition regimes in France, but in recent years Western Europe's trend has been increasingly conservative. Bitter over being out of power, the Socialist parties, too doctrinally dogmatic to fit in with the current prosperity, too inclined toward neutralism to fit in with the realities of the cold war, are now being rent by dispute. Since their economic doctrines no longer appeal, left-wingers among them have been agitating for a softer cold-war policy to win votes. They cry for banning the H-bomb...