Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lab space for the program "just doesn't exist," according to Westheimer. The tutee works on the same bench with his tutor. "We had a choice between holding crowded tutorial or none at all, and we chose in favor of the tutorial," Westheimer said...
...followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the creation of this weapon at the Los Alamos lab, was reminded of a passage from the Hindus' sacred Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty...
Tools of the Trade. The presidential green light sent the testing pros at Livermore and Los Alamos into an explosive burst of activity. A thorough series takes up to 18 months to prepare; they were given five months. Each lab sent its suggestions on what to test to Washington for top decision by AEC Chairman Seaborg. Military experts fired off plans to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Actual programming was done by AEC's atom-wise general manager, Major General Alvin Luedecke, 51, and Defense's brilliant, abrasive research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy...
...matters, and Bundie, forgetting the book bag, left with him. When he realized his blunder he dashed back to the Bick to find that the book bag had been taken by "a little man with snow white hair." Meanwhile, in the midst of a fire in the Chem 20 lab at Mallinckrodt, a mutilated, decapitated body was discovered in a fire blanket cabinet...
...Helene W. Toolan of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute reported that two viruses which had previously been found in human cancer have now been found in human embryos (from spontaneous abortions, or "miscarriages"). To rule out contamination in the Sloan-Kettering lab, parts of the same embryos were examined in London, where British workers isolated one of the two viruses...