Word: mex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When did the Russians start testing? The Russians exploded their first nuclear device in September 1949, only four years and two months after the first U.S. test at Alamogordo, N. Mex.. in July 1945. The Russian test involved a primitive fission bomb similar to the two U.S. bombs used in World War II, but the Russians must have started work immediately on the more advanced hydrogen bomb. On Aug. 12. 1953. they exploded their first test H-bomb, only nine months after the first U.S. H-bomb test at Eniwetok Island in the Pacific...
...Alaska at the Bering Strait. Anthropologists have long agreed that this intercontinental bridge-which vanished when the glaciers melted-was crossed by the earliest known North American settlers, who moved far down the continent in search of game (stone spearheads 100 centuries old were unearthed in Folsom, N. Mex., in 1926). Last week, to the existing evidence of the ice-age migration from Asia, a Columbia University anthropologist added an important new find: the oldest Alaskan campsite yet found on the Paleo-Indians' way south...
...dust-catching Aerobee-Hi, launched last month from White. Sands, N. Mex., climbed for 102 miles before blossoming, folded its petals only after it dropped within 65 miles of the earth's surface. When it finally landed, Physicist Robert K. Soberman of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory hoped to find a few micrometeor punctures in the three-layer sandwich of thin Mylar film and Plexiglas that lined the Aerobee's dust catchers. What he actually found was something quite different: during each second of exposure, some ten meteorites had hit each square centimeter. Most of the holes...
...major office buildings, including the town's tallest-the porcelain blue 20-story Guaranty Bank Building. Now, bent on expanding beyond Arizona, he plans to invest $20 million in baby skyscrapers in Southern California, last week broke ground for a $3,000,000 bank building in Roswell, N. Mex. "Fast as Phoenix is growing," says Murdock, "I can build office buildings faster than the town can absorb them...
...protect its lion's slice of the British gasoline market from hard-driving competitors, Shell-Mex & B. P. Ltd., jointly owned marketing arm of the Shell group and British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume...