Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During their wartime race to build the world's first Abomb, U.S. scientists urgently needed one vital component: a chemical element that was fissionable (explosive) but not so radioactive that it would disintegrate before the big bang was touched off. The bomb builders found what they wanted at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, where Drs. Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan had put together some synthetic plutonium, element 94. Until then, plutonium was no more than a lab curiosity, but it proved to be properly fissionable, and it was so slightly radioactive that only...
Although the arbitrary selection plan seems to work at Yale, Owen said that he would still like to see "some element of choice preserved for the Harvard Masters." He hoped eventually to see a system co-ordinating machine choice with selection by the Masters...
...Song Is Ended. This extemporaneous gaiety has been going on since 1943. But this year the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce objected that the folk singers were an undesirable element; young men wearing leather jackets and surly expressions had been observed in the crowds. Newbold Morris, a blueblooded liberal Republican who probably wishes by now that he had not been appointed Park Commissioner, decreed that there would be no more singing. His interest, he explained, was in merely protecting the Washington Square grass. (There is some grass in the square, pushing its way up through a mulch of ice-cream...
...anthropological expedition to unmapped jungles of Netherlands New Guinea, Michael Rockefeller, 22-year-old son of the New York Governor, peered through his horn-rimmed glasses and spotted a band of Willigiman-Wallalua warriors. Weeks later, the wanderlusting Harvard alumnus was still in his Baliem Valley element, excitedly filming "an area of the world and people never photographed before" and carrying out his special expedition mission: recording the off-beat music of the bellicose Willigiman-Wallalua, a harmonic grinding of teeth, backed by contrapuntal hoots and rumbles...
...prose pieces or plays, the best element in Jean Kerr's humor is that it often bridges traditionally alien settings, brings the muddy-carpeted world of school lunches and commuter trains into incon gruous collision with the slick panoplies of Manhattan. It works in both direc tions. Writing about a third-grade play at a Larchmont school, she notes certain uneven spots that "could have been cleaned up if they had taken the show to New Rochelle for a couple of weeks." Conversely, one of the biggest laughs in Mary, Mary comes when the movie actor prepares to take...