Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nerve. From then on, the twinges came hard and fast. Neutral Ireland, to the dismay of neutral India, sought support for an Assembly resolution branding Red China a violator of human rights by its repression in Tibet. Ghana's Ako-Adjei charged that Nyasaland is "a police state under British rule." Belgium's Pierre Wigny announced that his country is "now organizing political democracy" in the riot-swept Congo, and Austria's Dr. Bruno Kreisky warned that if Italy does not grant autonomy to the German-speaking people of the South Tyrol-an area that Italy acquired...
...time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey of the University of California points out that the moon may have a fluid metal core that is not moving fast enough to stir up measurable magnetism...
...fierce radiation in the reactor appeared to bother the bacteria hardly at all. When the reactor was shut down but still highly radioactive, they multiplied fast. Even when it was running full blast, they held their own. Since they normally divide every 20 minutes or so, this meant that radiation was killing only about as many as managed to live and divide. Just how much radiation the Pseudomonas got is hard to estimate, because the water circulates at varying distances from the core of the reactor, but Dr. Fowler thinks they may have absorbed more than 10 million rep (roentgen...
Died. John Clinton Peurifoy, 19, last surviving son of handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
Four years ago 4,800,000 U.S. families owned two cars or more. Today 7,000,000 do-and there are 350,000 three-car families. By 1965, more than 10 million families will have at least two cars. With the population growing fast, and the demand for special-purpose, personal transportation growing even faster, Ed Cole believes that auto sales in the U.S. will ride up steadily to 8,000,000 in the mid-1960s. More than that, in at least one year before 1970, the U.S. will sell an awesome 10 million cars...