Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best reply to Stevenson's rootless eloquence was not the presidential report or the imprecations of Republican orators. It was an equally eloquent passage from a speech made four years ago: "Until it [the atomic bomb] is subjected to a safe international control, we have no choice but to insure our atomic superiority . . . We can never yield on the objective of securing a foolproof system of international inspection and control. And we can never confuse negotiation with appeasement...
...imagine Nasser (or any Egyptian) sitting at the same conference table with any of the offenders. Something fantastically imaginative will be necessary to soften the rigidity of both sides. One possibility might be a meeting of leaders of the great powers in Cairo, as soon as it seems safe or feasible. We do not mean that President Eisenhower should float like Cleopatra down the Nile on a bubble-top barge, nor that Egyptians should be induced to shout "Aisha Khrushchev," through the streets of Cairo, nor that Pandit Nehru should stage a passive demonstration. But the collective action of these...
Major problem of the new technique: nobody can control the javelin's direction. Around and around it goes, and where it lands, nobody knows. No spectator is safe. Other javelineers are outraged. Said Czech Olympic Star Dana Zatopekova: "If this method is accepted, I will personally break my javelin and use it as supports for tomato plants." So far, the Olympic authorities have been too amazed to pronounce final judgment. But as of now nobody can find anything in the rules against...
...International Committee on Radiological Protection have decided on a minimum safety factor which is one-tenth of the one currently accepted by the AEC. That is, these organizations feel that the human body can tolerate only ten percent of the radio-strontium which the AEC currently deems safe...
Since the world wide distribution of calcium is far from uniform and the distribution of radioactive fallout is fairly even, it is not safe to assume a regular world-wide concentration...