Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushroom cloud climbed 90,000 feet, into the stratosphere, and a fast transport plane carrying an Air Force general and an Atomic Energy Commissioner at 30,000 ft., 50 miles away, had to turn and run to avoid being caught under the lip of the mushroom...
...prospector partner led him to one of the richest copper strikes in Arizona. With the Blue Chip mine making him richer every day, Packer began talking to his wife about New York dressmakers and Tiffany jewels. What he could not foresee, as he watched the town of Jericho mushroom, was the kind of overpowering disaster that can turn even blue chips into crushing liabilities...
...Stay Out. A Cambridge graduate (third-class honors), Mutesa II is a handsome, 29-year-old Muganda of the ruling Mushroom clan. He put on a dark brown suit, knotted his regimental tie (the blue and scarlet stripes of the Grenadier Guards, in which Mutesa is an honorary captain) and drove off in his black limousine. He and Governor Cohen talked for two hours. The interview was not a success. Out stalked the governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda...
...City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning. Why, in 1960 we'll have a population of 75,000. The Lord knows how things will go after that...
Cold was humor is pretty grisly stuff. Conceived in the shadow of Hiroshima's mushroom, most of it is as macabre as the chalkings of a condemned man on the wall of his death cell. For almost an hour Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow looks like an exception, juggling atomic weapons with a familiarly deft British touch. Then, as if exhausted by the harrowing task, it too succumbs to the subject matter...