Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential sites, five sea-level routes drew closest attention as the least expensive and easiest to dig. Each route has been studied for possible excavation by either conventional or nuclear methods. By using nuclear explosives (TIME, Jan. 31), the U.S. could build any one of them for only a fraction of the cost of a conventional canal...
...Beanpot Tournament, split with Clarkson, and clobbered Army on the way to its 14-5 record. Although Clarkson trails Harvard by a fraction of a per cent in Eastern competition, it would probably be ranked ahead of the Crimson because of its tougher schedule. But a Harvard victory tonight should vault the Crimson into the top four ahead of the Black Knights...
...atomic energy. Ploughshare scientists are bringing their calculations to a high polish, for if a new Isthmian canal is to be dug, nuclear explosives may be used. And Ploughshare men are sure that they can blast a wide sea-level canal in a couple of years at a fraction of the cost of conventional digging...
Tennis Star Gardnar Mulloy spent an afternoon on the court, called it "the best indoor court I've ever played on." Though Mulloy found that the fake grass fibers slow the court a fraction too much to suit a top-ranked player, he pronounced it "about as ideal a surface as you could have for the average player...
Moderation & Macaroni. The Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl...