Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communists exercise decisive power in the daily press. Item: when known Communists were caught with a cache of Molotov cocktails near one of the points on Vice President Nixon's canceled tour of Caracas, every paper except the Roman Catholic La Religión kept the story out of print. But when one of the arrested anti-Nixon rioters explained that he had joined in for a frolic and had no Communist ties, the story got headlines...
...have never known a period in television when all three networks were more receptive to considerations of new programing ideas . . . However, as a former reporter, I can testify that no matter what the networks do next season, it makes bigger headlines to report that the programing is 'stale and pedestrian' and that business is not too good...
...test's purpose was to find what happens when a nuclear warhead explodes in a virtual vacuum above the bulk of the atmosphere. The behavior of a nuclear explosion near sea level is known precisely. The nuclear fireball expands very fast at first, but both its temperature and pressure fall as it gets bigger. When its pressure equals that of the air, the ball stops expanding (for a megaton explosion, at a diameter of about one mile). The air also absorbs gamma and ultraviolet rays, confines radioactive particles to a comparatively small cloud...
...this dimming constellation, a bright new light is a little-known publication called the Paris Review-a magazine dedicated to the proposition that authors are more interesting than critics. Founded in Paris five years ago by a group of bumptious young Americans just out of college, the Review offered as its star turn a series of Q. and A. interviews with writers on the art of writing fiction...
Such legalized cutting of classes in the name of "activities"-pep rallies, assemblies, community projects or sports-has become a high school commonplace throughout the U.S. Last week school officials in Portland let it be known that they had had enough. A conference of principals and teachers agreed that school-and parent-sponsored activities had made "serious inroads in class attendance." Superintendent J.W. Edwards informed the city that this year the "three-ring circus" is not coming to town. Among changes...