Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 9 microns (four ten-thousandths of an inch) in diameter, just the sort of sphere that is formed by the billions when the fireball of a nuclear explosion touches and melts the surface of the earth. The sphere's age, measured by careful study of its radioactive decay, proved that it must be part of the fallout of the February test in the Sahara. Since the sphere was too big to hover in the air very long or drift very far, Dr. Kettlewell believes that his little moth acquired its radioactive particle before leaving Africa, carried...
...thing, 14 Plympton St. has mice. Mice are not at all like rats, nor are they a sign of decay or poverty. CRIMSON mice happen to be the most elegant of their kind in the western hemisphere. Newspaper mice are an especially varied lot, and include editorial mice, reporting mice, photographic mice, and, of course, business mice. The CRIMSON'S Sanctum is an ideal place for mice...
...apparent decline of the American press as shown by the statistics, and the very real decay manifested by the quality of the papers that survive, have aroused serious concern among all those who believe in the daily newspaper as something more than a financial venture. Carl Lindstrom, for 40 years a working newspaperman and now a professor of journalism at the University of Michigan, is very clearly one of these believers, and, in The Fading American Newspaper, he tells the press that much of the fault lies with itself, not with technological developments and the competition of television...
...does not approve such journalistic fetishes as the "pyramid style" and the "five W's" leads which second-rate newsmen consider the heart of journalistic form. Lindstrom's difficulty is that his indictment is too broad: not everything is wrong with the daily newspaper, and not all the decay is entirely the newspaper's fault...
...impressive office buildings going up along Park Avenue and in the mid-town area stand in radical contrast to the slum conditions spreading in what not too long ago were fine residential neighborhoods. The cities are so much the center of modern cultural, social and economic life that their decay must be a cause for great national concern...