Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About three months ago, after a hernia operation revealed the serious progression of his cancer, Dulles underwent 18 jolting sessions of radiation therapy and one injection of radioactive gold, then set off hopefully for a convalescence under the sun and beside the sea in Florida. But the hope was short-lived. Two weeks later, John Foster Dulles flew back to Washington and checked into Walter Reed hospital for the last time...
...last week, Avco's miniature sun is a tube 30 inches long filled with very low-pressure gas. When a 4 billion-watt electrical spark from a bank of condensers is discharged across the end of the tube, the magnetic field that surrounds it should expand-so said Gold's theory-into the tube, pushing the gas ahead of it in a small, tame version of a solar shock wave...
...Kantrowitz' indoor waves are only about half as fast as the waves that Professor Gold theorized as coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
...western with three major stars (Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn), two main heroes, two main villains, three main plots, five subplots, eight cooling corpses, and nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain...
...GOLD PRICE RISE on London market to $35.145 an ounce, close to record, has been spurred by speculation U.S. Treasury may raise gold price above official U.S. rate of $35.0875 because of outflow of U.S. gold (TIME, May 18). But Treasury has no intention of doing...