Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On a big Hollywood sound stage, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 76, peered through his thick-lensed glasses, did an approving doubletake. Object of his scrutiny: Cinemactor James Cagney, 54, his natural resemblance to Halsey startlingly enhanced by makeup, playing Bull Halsey in a movie titled The Gallant Hours...
Two research teams, a continent apart, are hot on the trail of poles-apart methods of combatting measles. Traditionally one of the "inevitable" childhood fevers, measles is widely underrated as a health menace. For children under three and for adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age...
Money & Motels. As a civil servant, Mattei was appointed head of Mussolini's nearly defunct oil exploration agency in 1945, with orders to liquidate it. Instead he poured money into research and discovered vast fields of natural gas in the Po Valley. Today ENI gas, pumped through 3,100...
Plutonium is found in nature only in tiny traces. But when fissionable U-235 is burned in a nuclear reactor with the U-238 that forms the bulk of natural uranium, some of the neutrons that it sends out are captured by the U-238 atoms, turning them into plutonium...
The New Baal. To the scientific orchestra that had been tuning up in sections for centuries, Newton's law of gravity brought the exhilarating unity of a conductor's baton. The music of the spheres, in which the ancients believed literally, at last existed symbolically in the harmony...