Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vellucci said that DNA research has caused friction between Cambridge and MIT and that nuclear waste disposal may become a problem. Milne said MIT follows city and federal ordinances in those projects. "Nuclear shouldn't be an issue. I don't believe it should be a problem," Milne said...
...precede it. It was not one of the least ironies of the period that it was a flawed man, so ungenerous in some of his human impulses, who took the initiative to lead America toward a concept of peace compatible with its new realities and the perils of a nuclear age, and that the foreign leaders who best understood this were Mao and Chou, who openly expressed their preference for Richard Nixon over the wayward representatives of American liberalism. It was on the level of shared geopolitical interest transcending philosophies and history that the former Red baiter and the crusaders...
...oldest ship in the U.S. Navy is the destroyer tender Dixie, still seaworthy after almost 40 years. That's nothing. The Navy's oldest active officer, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, is twice as old as the Dixie. Moreover, Rickover, the father of U.S. naval nuclear power, seems quite likely to outlast the ship. Convinced that the admiral, soon to turn 80, is not about to be slowed down by barnacles, Acting Navy Secretary R. James Woolsey last week announced that Rickover had been appointed to yet another two-year term. That will make him a six-decade salt...
...Chinese are also exploring more esoteric realms. In Peking American-educated veterans of China's nuclear weapons program told of their plans to build by the mid-1980s a 50 billion-electron-volt accelerator for research in particle physics. Scientists are building two gravity-wave detectors, one in Peking, the other at Canton's Sun Yat-sen University...
...notes. They hug each other a lot, hold each other's arms, "are supportive," as the psychologists say; they form pieta-like tableaux of familial affection. There's little wrong with that, and it might make a valid production of Lear someday, but all the actors--not just the nuclear family--would have to work towards realizing it, and the director would have to apply it with a consistent hand...