Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fire or Token? The impact of Almond's decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly...
...danger that Soviet progress in antiaircraft missiles will cancel out SAC's power has been largely overcome by U.S. progress in air-to-ground missiles, which will enable bombers to fire at targets hundreds of miles away. Most promising: the 500-mile nuclear Hound Dog. Under development are new Hound Dog versions with ranges up to 1,000 miles...
...Ginsberg arrived, wearing blue jeans and a checked black-and-red lumberjacking shirt with black patches at the elbows. With him were two other shabbily dressed Beatniks. One was Ginsberg's intimate friend, a mental-hospital attendant named Peter Orlovsky, 25, who writes poetry (I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than I do?"); the other was Gregory Corso, 28, a shaggy, dark little man who boasts that he has never combed his hair-and never gets an argument. Corso, also a poet, will be remembered for his lines...
...Gaulle, "honorable conditions" for a "peace of the brave" are an immediate cease-fire and talks with rebel delegates in Paris* on military matters. But the rebels have an "honorable" condition of their own: they want France to promise independence to Algeria before agreeing to talks. In the eyes of the other, each side was demanding victory in advance, and the fighting went...
...Fireproof Paint. A new smokeless, nonflammable paint said by its makers to be far more effective than other fire-retarding paints was brought out by Baltimore Paint & Chemical Corp. Called Saf, it stops flames from spreading, insulates interiors against heat by forming a coat of cellular puffs up to an inch thick when touched by fire. Cost...