Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that materials unaffected by heat can often stand atomic radiation, too. So they finally came up with a set of gadgets that ignores neutrons and gamma rays. Two of their assemblies, enclosed in a heated capsule at 842° F., spent 1,000 hours in the heart of the Oak Ridge nuclear reactor. They worked all the time, affected neither by the heat nor by the storm of radiation...
After 8000 B.C.. the climate grew steadily warmer, melting the remnants of ice. Warmth-demanding plants (e.g., oak, elm and alder) invaded the Britannic Peninsula. New animals and new tribes of men trooped across the marshes. The climate was probably almost as warm as today. "A bit chillier," hazards Dr. Godwin...
...high water almost came. In Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 4,000) white mobs rioted in the tree-shaded streets and the old courthouse square to stop the enrollment of twelve Negro students in the local high school. Clinton is the only place in Tennessee (except the federal enclave of Oak Ridge) to integrate its school, and outsiders came streaming in last week to lash the little town back into line...
...small, oak-paneled chamber of the Palais des Nations in Geneva an anniversary passed, without meaning or elation; last week the ambassadorial talks between the U.S. and Red China entered their second year. After 55 meetings the procedure has become cut and dried. Every ten days or so, able and unruffled U. Alexis Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, journeys from Prague to Geneva to confront, punctually at 10 a.m., Wang Ping-nan, Red China's Ambassador to Warsaw. Johnson usually begins by asking about Americans still held in China; Wang accuses the U.S. of holding Chinese...
Rigid As Ever. Elsewhere the situation is quite different. Arkansas has integrated only three small districts with a total of 50 Negro pupils. Though both a state and a federal court have declared Tennessee's school segregation laws unconstitutional, the state has still only one desegregated area-Oak Ridge, which is under federal control. In Louisiana the only major move against segregation has come from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, whose parochial schools are now being integrated. In the rest of the South -Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida-elementary and secondary schools...