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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deuterium fusion would produce more energy than it absorbed. Explained NRL Research Director Robert M. Page: "We have to go farther to get a true fusion reaction and farther still to prove it." Sustaining a fusion reaction, he explained, is like lighting a piece of paper with a match. First the paper turns brown, then it smokes, then it bursts into flame. "We think we have reached the stage where the deuterium is beginning to show a little brown." What Kolb and the Naval Research Laboratory need now is a bank of condensers ten times as powerful, i.e., a bigger...
Running for Governor of Alabama last year, hard-jawed young (37) John Patterson could match racist slogans with the best of his opponents-and he had a record of action to back up his stump talk. As Alabama's attorney general, Patterson had helped get the N.A.A.C.P. banned from the state, taken legal action against a Tuskegee Negro boycott of downtown stores and against Montgomery Negroes when they boycotted city buses. On that basis, Patterson was elected Governor. But by last week, John Patterson had discovered to his embarrassment that the irresponsible promise held out during a campaign...
...fender ornaments were all pearl-handled Colt six-shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop, grabbed an armful of fancy jeans, vests and jackets from the back seat, and bustled busily into the dressing room of TV's Scott (Slingshot Slade) Brady. "Nudie," self-made giant of the western clothing trade, was merely delivering the goods...
...believe that this will go down as a squalid Parliament," he said, and proceeded to tick off as Colonial Office accomplishments the -independence of Ghana and the Malayan Federation, the coming independence of Nigeria and the West Indies. Coolly eyeing Bevan, Lennox-Boyd said he was prepared to match this against any record Parliament might make in the future, "if ever, which is most unlikely, the desiccated calculating machine on his right [Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell] formed an administration...
...fell passionately in love with a toy-soldier-sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle's heart with the wondrously uncharacteristic words: "Kings must please the public...