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...series of craters blasted by both chemical and nuclear explosives in the Nevada desert. The first, called Buster Jangle-U. (1951), used a crude atom bomb with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. It dug a circular hole 53 ft. deep and 258 ft. in diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest cratering shots, Sedan (100 kilotons) and Danny...
...Manhattan publicist and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, will receive the other half of Janet Dulles' estate, also gets $10,000 outright, plus forgiveness of a mortgage held by her father. Dulles' three sisters are each to get $10,000; William C. Pierce and Henry N. Ess III, his law partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each. To his second son, Avery Dulles, went only $5,000, "not because of any lack of affection for him, but because of special circumstances." The circumstances: as a member of the Jesuit order...
...pies (pronounced Top-ee-ess) has the proud bearing of a bullfighter, has been called the black prince of contemporary art. Urged to follow his father in the practice of law, he turned to art when a serious bout with tuberculosis ended his career at the University of Barcelona. Hospitalized for two years, he learned exquisite draftsmanship, developed a consuming interest in the devious disciplines of surrealism...
...parts of the latest military jets are carefully shielded to make them "ess conspicuous to the Sidewinder's infra-ed eye. As a result, the most recent Sidewinders have acquired electronic guidance o supplement their infra-red eyes...
...teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis was 15 and Chloe was 13. Heloi'se was 18 when she fell in love with Abelard. Tristram was 19 when he first met Isolde. Juliet was 1'ess than 14 when Romeo made love to her. All of these youths, the great lovers of history, would be looked upon as immature adolescents and identified as juvenile delinquents if they were living today...