Word: gatlinburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Project Sherwood, the secret U.S. program to achieve controlled thermonuclear (atomic fusion) power, came ever so slightly into the open last week. After attending a secret conference of 350 Sherwood men at Gatlinburg, Tenn., Dr. Edward Teller, leading authority on thermonuclear processes, delivered a complicated paper before an unclassified meeting of the American Nuclear Society at Chicago...
Backing the Fastest Horse. On Sept. 30, 1951, Adams attended a governors' conference at Gatlinburg, Tenn., where he announced that the name of General Dwight Eisenhower-whom he had never met-would be entered in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Says Adams: "I became convinced that he had the capabilities and the principles to make a really great President." Then he adds: "He was the fastest horse in the stable...
...gloomier moments Poet T. S. Eliot predicted that Western civilization's sole enduring monuments would be "the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls." Not if Bart Leiper of Gatlinburg, Tenn. has his way. Leiper, a drumbeater for the local Chamber of Commerce, needed a gimmick to promote the opening of Gatlinburg's new Pigeon Forge golf course and hit on a surefire teaser: atomic golf balls. At nearby Oak Ridge he persuaded scientists to inject three golf balls with pellets of radioactive cobalt 60, happily headed home to Gatlinburg with the fixings. On opening day last...
...Observer has sent Correspondent Kenneth Harris as a roving U.S. reporter. But even Harris' first experience showed how little the British press has done to cover the U.S. When he showed up at the National Governors' Conference a little more than a year ago in Gatlinburg Tenn., the governors, who had never had a British reporter at their annual conference, could not understand why he was there. "They told me," Harts recalls, "that they were not working on any foreign aid programs...