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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26--The weight of evidence implicates smoking as the main cause of rising lung cancer, the government's chief health officer declared Thursday...
...play and verbal warfare that is continually going on. The varsity's midseason string of more than 200 scoreless minutes produced two extremely vocal clashes. In the 0-0 tie with Williams, Eph goalie Bob Adams continually exhorted his teammates to "get the big guy"--Keyes, the Crimson's main defensive cog. The Ephmen did their best, once actually dazing the big full-back, but they could not halt his effectiveness...
Duroselle's main fear for the infant Fifth Constitution was, in fact, the death of de Gaulle. The prime minister is so strong under the present governmental system, he said, that if the president was weaker than de Gaulle, there could be a conflict between the two executives...
...furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite, it proved to be five times as strong as ordinary graphite, keeps its strength at temperatures up to 6,700° F., also has the extraordinary property of conducting heat 100 times better along its main surfaces than perpendicular to them...
With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle...