Word: neutrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefield, the situation was certainly tense enough. In addition to the North Vietnamese divisions based just north of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence detected two full divisions and elements of a third along the Cambodian frontier, waiting to attack the Central Highlands. There were reports by neutral observers that the Russians have sent Hanoi ground-to-ground Shyster missiles, 750-mile intermediate-range weapons that could reach Saigon from North Viet Nam. And the week's casualties pushed U.S. deaths in Viet Nam over the 10,000 mark, making Viet Nam the fifth costliest war in U.S. history (after...
...woman hangs out her wash to dry alongside one of the myriad branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. This innocent-looking domestic scene is of particular interest to U.S. reconnaissance pilots, who daily "go around the corner"-their lingo for their semisecret flights over neutral Laos-to check on the lady's wash. When no laundry is on the line, that is a signal from the sharp-eyed housekeeper that North Vietnamese troops or trucks are moving near by. Within minutes after the pilots notice that the wash is not out, U.S. planes are raining bombs...
Mass into Energy. Gell-Mann's quark is an unusual creature indeed. Unlike other known particles, which are electrically neutral or have positive or negative charges that are whole multiples of the basic charge of the electron, quarks would have a charge of either one-third or two-thirds of the unit electron charge. Arranged in different combinations, quarks would form practically any one of the confusing variety of subatomic particles...
Argonne National Laboratory physicists have also examined iron meteor ites, air and sea water in a vain attempt to find quarks that had combined with stable atoms. Instead of being electrically neutral, they reasoned, such atoms would have fractional charges imparted by the quarks-enabling scientists to separate them out in an electric field and analyze them. Because quarks would more likely combine with heavier atoms, one scientist has suggested looking for quark-bearing atoms in oysters, which tend to concentrate the heavier elements in the seas...
...Wallace Johnson was so fair that people called him "Straight Edge." Frank Johnson grew up in northern Alabama's non-Negrophobe Winston County. Because it had few slaves in 1861, Winston refused to secede in the Civil War (Johnson's forebears fought on both sides) and stayed neutral as "the Free State of Winston." It remains independently Republican. At one point, Johnson's father was the only Republican in the Alabama legislature-a situation that is now an ironic impossibility, since Johnson reapportioned the state. Combined by the judge with a more populous Democratic county, the Winston...