Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unlikely Event . . ." For the U.S. builders of the submarines, not the question, but the sudden public interest in it, was new. Should a submarine be hit at top speed by another ship, the result might indeed be disaster. But in port, the experts argued, no ship would be traveling fast enough to penetrate the heavy shielding built around the reactor. "However," said Admiral Rickover, "in the unlikely event that a collision would be so severe and so precisely located as to penetrate the submarine's hull and its reactor system, the reactor is so located in the ship that...
Last week in one of Preacher Laestadius' old strongholds, the community of Jukkasjarvi far above the Arctic Circle, Laplanders gathered to celebrate the 350th anniversary of their 17th century wooden church. The main event was the unveiling of a new altarpiece, commissioned six years ago by the local mining company and carved by 64-year-old Bror Hjorth (pronounced yoort), Sweden's foremost and most controversial sculptor...
...such concentration, Rosy has built up a collection of some 250,000 pictures, covering every major racing event since Sir Thomas Lipton went to the U.S. from England in 1899 for the first of five unsuccessful tries at the America's Cup. Rosy's black-and-white pictures have a style that any yachtsman can spot at a glance: arresting composition, sharp clarity, and most important, an uncanny projection of the yacht's personality. "A yacht photographer must understand the character of a boat-he must see her perform," he explains...
...Pentagon reorganization bill (TIME, July 28), saw a chance to regain ground. Russell introduced a rider to an appropriations bill that would forbid the Administration the right to undertake any study of surrender. U.S. citizens, cried Dick Russell, "would prefer to die on their feet in the event of a nuclear holocaust than to be making plans for living on their knees as the slaves of the masters of the Kremlin." The Senate shoved aside all real legislation, argued about Russell's amendment for hours, finally yelled it through...
Every Southerner, he feels, must share the guilt of collective injustice done the Negro from the days of slavery through the era of segregation. He admits that he himself bore this burden of guilt lightly till his wife's untimely death in 1933, an event that seemed so personally unfair that it shocked him into a generalized awareness of injustices. It did not make him a blind believer in reform. He quotes with tacit approval an uncle who said: "Ideals are a sin. We should love...