Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clean Clouds. When a crater-making shot is fired, a mushroom of earth grows out of the ground above the explosion. A jet of hot gas raises a dust cloud high in the air. Most of the dust and debris settle immediately, and hardly any dust falls more than 21 miles from the crater. This dust is not very radioactive. Nearly all of the shot's radioactivity is buried deep under the rubble that falls back into the hole. Ploughshare men are sure that if modern, "clean" explosives are used, the radioactivity that escapes will be of little significance...
...among whites fleeing African territories being taken over by black nationalists; a bearded Afrikaner who had been farming in Kenya, which won its freedom last month, crossed back into his homeland in his ten-year-old Chevrolet, jumped out, and literally knelt down and kissed the red Transvaal dust. So many whites have migrated from the neighboring white-dominated Central African Federation, which was dissolved last New Year's Eve, that hundreds of such "refugees" are living in house trailers in South African cities. During the last three weeks of 1963, 3,000 more of them poured across...
...brought about, he says, by dense and continuous clouds in the parts of the earth's atmosphere through which refracted sunlight must pass. But this time Professor Russell suspects another cause. Last spring's volcanic eruption on the island of Bali tossed vast quantities of fine dust high into the atmosphere. The tiny particles, which may take years to settle, have been turning sunsets unusually red. By screening off refracted light, they may also be responsible for the disappearance of the moon...
...Easy Life. Dust swirls, the camera whirls to follow a flashy type in a flashy car varooming through Rome on a sleepy summer morning. All at once the car skids to a stop, and the type hollers up at a young man watching him from a second-story window. "Ciao! Ha telefono?" The young man hesitates-should he reply to a passing stranger...
...Dust & Cobwebs. "Britten has never claimed to be an innovator," argues Tenor Peter Pears, his longtime friend and the voice for whom most of his work is composed. "There blows through his vocal music, at least, a strong, revitalizing southeast wind which has rid English song of much accumulated dust and cobwebs. If Britten is no innovator, he is most certainly a renovator...