Word: geigers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fallout from massive Russian nuclear tests was still clicking the Geiger counters last March when the Russian propaganda machines began grinding out a high-priority party line. The message: the peace-loving Soviets had voluntarily suspended nuclear tests, called on the U.S. to do the same. Under heavy attack from such fervent ban-the-bomb groups as SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), U.S. officials doggedly went ahead with the U.S.'s own long-scheduled test series in mid-Pacific, but the President finally agreed to a year's test suspension beginning Oct. 31 provided...
Last week the Geiger counters clicked furiously again as Western spotters counted four separate Russian nuclear explosions "north of the Arctic Circle." After the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the tests, Moscow radio said the Russians had been "forced to resume." The U.S. ban-the-bomb groups were strangely silent. Knowing that it takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William...
...remaining short stories, Lore Groszmann's "Mrs. Geiger's Night Out," works from a weak beginning into a strong portrait of a massively silent old woman. The other, Millie Starr's "Crazy Sunday," would be fine but for the fact that Salinger has done it all before and better...
...clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers. He accepted more and more invitations to women's club luncheons and rubber chicken dinners. He was appointed chairman of a state commission to study...
...where magnetic deflection is greatest), and strongest near the magnetic poles. At 1,200 miles above South America, the radiation hit Explorer IV at a heavy ten roentgens an hour-enough to give the human space traveler his top weekly X-ray dosage in about two minutes. And one Geiger counter inside the satellite, though coated with lead 1/16 in. thick, recorded 60% as many impacts as its unshielded mate, which in turn reported radiation almost as intense as that reported by two scintillation counters outside the vehicle. Nobody knows where this radiation comes from or what gives it such...