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...None 2 ) Williams 3 ) All three As any master of multiple choice could detect in a flash. No. 3 is the correct answer. All three men now have plays in production-Williams in New York, Picasso in Vienna, U Nu at East Carolina College in Greenville...
...Commissioners agreed with the students that there was no need for an inspection system for atmospheric tests, as we now are apparently able to detect any nuclear shot in the atmosphere...
...door open-but just barely. He urged that the two great cold war adversaries make a final try for a test-ban treaty at an 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva next month; he insisted at his press conference that the U.S. would not only demand monitors to detect Russian tests, but would require an inspection system against any Soviet test preparations. At the same time, he promised to announce within a month his decision about whether the U.S. will resume atmospheric testing. The all-but-certain answer: yes, probably in April...
Guinness itself is a superlative, the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fattests, thinnests, highests, lowests, fastests and slowests-20,000 records in all. Its students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...
...detect satellites, NORAD has a new electronic fence across the Southern states of the U.S. Its transmitters hurl radio energy hundreds of miles from the earth; its receivers catch satellite reflections for quick triangulation and tracking. It has detected space junk as small as a 14-ft. strand of wire from an old satellite. Says Captain Orville Greynolds, a spacetrack officer in Colorado Springs: "No one could launch a space vehicle and keep it a secret. We are positive we have checked and tracked all Russian objects now in space...