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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conrad wrote of the journey upriver to Stanleyville: "It was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on earth and the big trees were kings. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish...
Syrian President Amin Hafez recently has been calling for war against Israel "at the earliest date." Such Arab threats-and Israeli counterthreats- have been heard before. Nevertheless, the water war seems to be heading for a showdown...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. Less obscure than his earliest works and less embarrassingly confessional than his recent Life Studies, these poems pursue Lowell's preoccupation with creativity, madness, marriage and his Puritan heritage in tough, masculine verse...
...their U-235 and make it fission. Such a device is more effective than shooting two chunks of fissionable material toward each other in an apparatus like a gun barrel, as was done in the U.S. bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The U.S. also used the implosion method in its earliest nuclear weapons. Although a surprising number of commentators assumed that use of implosion showed advanced skill by the Chinese, the AEC did not agree. "The low yield of the test," it said, "coupled with other information obtained from the radioactive debris indicates that the technology of the device is that...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. Less obscure than his earliest works and less embarrassingly confessional than his recent Life Studies, these poems pursue Lowell's preoccupation with creativity, madness, marriage and his Puritan heritage in tough, masculine verse...