Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected the key Soviet-bloc naval base at Valona and told a group of gold-star mothers: "The imperialists are trying to unleash another war, but we, if necessary, can strike a stronger blow...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
...secret New Mexico laboratory where the first atom bombs were taking shape, and where he was known as "Mr. Baker." The Gestapo searched his house in Denmark but found no atomic secrets. He had taken most of them to freedom in a small black bag. They missed his Nobel gold medal too. He had dissolved it in a bottle of acid and put it on a shelf to await reconstitution after...
Clip-clopping on high heels, a smartly dressed girl turned into a narrow alley behind Tokyo's famed Ginza one morning last week, passed half a dozen tawdry sake shops and headed for a three-story building with an imposing marble entrance lettered in gold: "Jujin Hospital." Smaller but more significant was the legend: "Home of the Japanese Society of Cosmetic Medicine." By going to Jujin, patients can not only gain face but new faces...
Also celebrating was P. Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold and Newport cigarettes), whose third-quarter earnings were $1.02 a share, v. 22? last year. Pharmaceuticals were also up. Abbott Laboratories' sales for the nine months increased 12%, while profits rose 16%. G. D. Searle & Co. reported quarter profits up 21% on a sales boost of 18%. In the auto industry, General Motors' earnings were off 11%, but Chrysler and Ford both reported huge increases (see Autos...