Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA, a place where statesmen once felt in command of history, was jammed last week with men who shape the world. As 5,000 scientists from 67 countries met for the second U.N. Atoms for Peace conference, the fission-and-fusion future unfolded in a staggering display of brains and machinery. Nobody topped the U.S. effort, a hugely successful reactor exhibit spiced with news that the world's first controlled thermonuclear reaction may have been achieved at Los Alamos. For a report on one of the biggest scientific meetings ever held, see SCIENCE, Monster Conference...
...world's exploding population, Wright learned his concern at the knee of his family-planning mother, Helena Wright, who has urged Britons for years to breed in tight little island size. Wright and his wife recently exported the message to a new birth control clinic in Trinidad, there met the same obstacle that baffles all modern Malthusians-contraceptives are just too much bother for the earth's fastest-breeding peoples. Trinidadians shunned the simplest mechanical devices, which Wright sadly pronounced, in any case, "an upper-mental-class activity, no good at all for Indians, Indonesians or Japanese...
...youth in Hartford, Conn., when he began taking illustration courses by mail. He worked in a typewriter factory at night to leave his days free for sketching from nature in the East Hartford meadows along the Connecticut River. At 33, he married a 20-year-old girl he met in the next-door studio in Gloucester, Mass., Commercial Artist Sally Michel, who now draws for the New York Times Magazine. The couple set up housekeeping in Manhattan's Lincoln Square, but Avery's heart belonged to the country. In the summer the two, later accompanied by their daughter...
...different sort is sensible, prim-and-proper Caroline; she likes older men. Halfway through the book she sights one of them, a gin-rickety, fascinatingly debauched religion editor: "Caroline could not help remembering the feelings she had had about him at the other party . . . and as his eyes met hers she realized he was thinking about it too. For an instant the spark arose between them again, and her heart began to pound. She was filled with a sweetness mixed with sadness. Mike leaned down and kissed her very lightly on the lips. 'Merry Christmas,' he said softly...
...spacemen of the world met in Amsterdam last week for the ninth Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, they were the most sought-after scientists on earth. They obliged by plotting dozens of ways to leave it. Items...