Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power to make Geneva a failure. But diplomacy is a continuous game, and there are other ways of scoring it than at the end of each inning. It took 400 seemingly fruitless meetings to end Rus sia's obduracy and achieve an independent Austria; a similar process of exploration, cross-questioning and testing of intentions would be needed if mutual agreement, in stead of the caprice of history, is to settle the future of Germany and of European security. Anyone who took the trouble to study the Western position at Geneva would find it an honest attempt to reach...
...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 (Pu-239). The plutonium can then be separated from uranium by a comparatively simple chemical process. If the reactor is made right, it "breeds," i.e., it makes more plutonium than it burns U-235. Used as fuel in turn, the new-made plutonium breeds even faster, making good nuclear fuel out of a blanket of inert uranium surrounding the reacting core. This breeding process is exciting to nuclear...
...summons to arms comes from the self-styled Tibetan Brigade, a force being organized at the University of California in Berkley. Now in the process of raising men and money for the mission, the Brigade hopes to enter Tibet this summer and give military, moral, and material aid to the anti-Communist native forces...
Other Brigade outposts have been formed or are in process of formation at UCLA, Columbia, the University of Texas, in Alaska and Philadelphia. So far there have been apparently no efforts to organize a training program here...
...always been the case, the Peabody's troubles are mainly financial. The Museum is striving to make its exhibits more useful to both scholar and public by depending excessively upon a very slow process of fund-raising...