Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representative in the 45-nation International Atomic Energy Agency, created to carry out the atoms-for-peace program that the President proposed in December 1953. Patronage problems aside, brainy Bob McKinney, 47, seemed a sound choice for the post. A onetime (1951-52) Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he served ably in 1955-56 as chairman of a top-level citizens' panel set up by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy to study and report on peaceful uses of atomic energy. As a pal and protege of the committee's vice-chairman, New Mexico's Democratic...
...Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata for "attacking the Ghana government in court" and refused to let him back into the country to finish his case...
...molecules that hang around the moon for long must be much heavier. But the moon may have in addition a temporary atmosphere made of helium and argon given off by radioactivity in the moon's rocks and of other light gases escaping from the moon's interior or contributed by the vaporization of meteors hitting the surface. Elsmore figures that if the moon's atmosphere is half permanent (heavy) and half temporary (light), it will be something like one five-trillionth (2 x 10¯¹³) as dense as the earth's atmosphere...
...again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been trapped in the interior during the Mahdi's uprising, was even more reluctant to be found than Dr. Livingstone. Stanley set out with an expedition that included eight white officers, 795 natives and cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and champagne. After a harrowing six months' trek during which several...
When they finally caught up with Schnitzer Pasha, the rescuers were in far worse shape than the rescued. The Pasha reluctantly accompanied Stanley back to civilization, fell on his head during the welcoming ceremonies, and hurried back into the interior, where he was murdered. Stanley dismissed him as a "nearsighted, faithless, ungrateful little man"; even fairer judges must note that the Pasha was slow-witted enough to miss a pretty neat line of dialogue. As the great explorer-journalist stepped out of his tent amid rifle salutes, the Pasha unforgivably failed to say: "Mr. Stanley, I presume...