Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrogen bomb. He convinced AECommissioner Gordon Dean, while heavy support piled in from Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Pentagon. After four agonizing months, on Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman announced that he had ordered work on the H-bomb begun. Lewis Strauss's key contributions as Dwight Eisenhower's AEC chairman: 1) pressing the role of private enterprise in atomic power, 2) fashioning the President's plan for atoms-for-peace, 3) arguing for continued nuclear-weapons tests until the U.S. could get an ironclad inspection system and Russian agreement to stop weapons production...
...this time the Walden students have grasped much of what is involved in the shape of the earth, and in the late winter they begin learning about what it is composed of. Ideas about the different states of matter are presented, and they begin to examine about twenty key elements. The concept of atomic structures is introduced, and these elements, their properties, and the ways they combine are considered. When a few more are added, the beginnings of the periodic table may be understood. Then another twenty-odd elements are studied because of their importance to man, elements like gold...
Different kinds of rocks and different geologic processes up to continent formation follow, and after them comes an examination of how key biochemical compounds, like carbohydrates, hydrocarbons, amino acids, and proteins are formed...
...stated and much-trumpeted hope of the Enlightenment and three centuries of liberal thought that education was the key to Utopia. As one by one the other panaceas have proved to be illusions--from Marxian economics to social engineering, our high school system should not midwife despair of ever reaching such a goal.Fred Safier '60 received nation-wide publicity when he entered Harvard at the age of twelve. His method of escaping the usual secondary school curriculum is not open to most of the nation's gifted...
...Key Witness. Because Ernst was openly working for Trujillo, many witnesses greeted him with suspicious silence. Among them: Air Force Sergeant Harold French, an old friend of Murphy's, who helped install the Beechcraft's extra gas tanks and was with Murphy at Zahns Airport until noon on the fatal day. Murphy told French about the trip in detail, and French told the FBI ("Gerry said that gasoline would be available to him at Monte Cristi in 5-gal. cans...