Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth of information poured out, visiting U.S. Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, observed: "Many things are not quite as secret as we thought." One prime example: for ten years, the U.S., Britain and Russia had independently (and secretly) measured the rate of neutron absorption by reactor fuels (U-235, U-233, plutonium); plotted on a graph at Geneva, each country's data produced precisely the same answer...
...born Castiglia) casually told the Kefauver committee that he knew De Sapio "very well," the public assumed the worst. After all, weren't both men Italians? "What do I have to do?" asks De Sapio. "Send a special scout ahead all day everywhere I go to case a joint before I step inside? About a week ago, I was having lunch with some friends at one of the best restaurants in town.† We're all having a pleasant time, when suddenly someone comes up and tells me Costello is in the next room. Well, I called...
...Chaudhri is steel-nerved in executing them. His favorite verse from the Koran reads: "Once you have decided, have faith in God and go ahead without faltering." Says one critic: "When he does rarely show an emotion, it is like watching oil drip from a robot's loosened joint...
Brazilians were inordinately coup-conscious last week because General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, the respected chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, had made it painfully clear in a weekend speech that top military men were prepared to consider "intervention" if it seemed to them that the October presidential election threatened to bring on "revolution and chaos." But, paradoxically, the general's stern words may have lessened the immediate danger of a coup. The speech evoked an answering torrent of anticoup sentiments from the press, public, politicos and even some military leaders. That strong reaction would probably influence...
...Daniel Webster's standard, there was good reason last week for content and cheerfulness in the U.S. In a joint report, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced that U.S. employment in July reached an alltime record level of 64,995,000. This represented an upsurge of 5,000,000 jobs since February, far above the normal seasonal rise of 3,000,000, and put the number of U.S. workers on the job at a full 2,847,000 above a year ago. With average earnings of factory workers up to $1.88 an hour, 8? above a year...