Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social fallout hangs heavy in the mountain air. A rock group came to play at the high school a few years back and was threatened with nonpayment if its members dared live up to their reputation for dropping acid. Yet even the performers were aghast at the drugs being passed around by the local students. The usual tales of suburban wife swapping, alcoholism, mental illness, divorce and suicide seem intensified by isolation. Laura Fermi, widow of Physicist Enrico Fermi, once described the genesis of the town's problems: "We were too many of a kind, too close...
Fully half of the Lab's $385 million appropriation is spent on weapons development, and the nocturnal thuds of high explosives testing tend to be reassuring rather than disruptive of sleep. Nuclear devices designed at the Lab end up as the heart of MIRV warheads in Minuteman missiles. The new Trident missile will carry a nuclear warhead designed at the Lab. Theoreticians and physicists specializing in thermodynamics are drilling holes into nearby sites to reach "hot rocks" that will provide geothermal power. A special reverence is held for LAMPF, the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. There...
...week, Washington was awash in speculation that the President would soon take military action against Iran. But U.S. policymakers insisted that the rumors were untrue. General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, repeatedly counseled caution; so, too, did the normally hawkish Brzezinski. Said a high Administration official: "Nobody but nobody believes the hostages can be saved with an air strike...
...part, it was a perceptive comment. The Shah had become isolated from his people. He failed to realize how deeply they hated the corruption and police terror, how seriously the country's Westernization offended its Islamic traditions, how much the middle class on which he pinned high hopes yearned for political expression as well as material prosperity. But the wall was built not by his advisers but by the Shah himself...
...high priests of television could do something. They could cut down his tape and his air time. Starting with a few lines on the networks on Nov. 22, Hansen grew bigger and bigger through the next days. The TV drama took on a life of its own. One wonders whether, if Walter Cronkite had ignored him, Hansen would even have been allowed into the besieged embassy. He was, however, and that was a spectacle of sorts, but not as big as what came through the tube. By last week Hansen was more than electronic news-he was entertainment...