Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of green savannah stretching undisturbed for miles lumbers a Rube Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel's rim gouge out the earth and occasionally hurl wayward chunks of clay high in the air. Close by, groups of near-naked black tribesmen stand with spears in hand, staring in wonder...
...Government Department appoints Gen Curtis LeMay a tenured professor. In an interview, LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 running-mate, endorses the President's call for a surgical strike on Savannah...
Paul De Vincenzo Savannah...
...Pont technicians also conduct research at Savannah River on various parts of the nuclear fuel cycle and manage the only two facilities in the country which can reprocess plutonium and uranium from nuclear waste produced by the defense program...
Researchers at Savannah River and Sandia also conduct extensive work for non-military purposes. Sandia, for example, oversees a large solar energy program, and its nuclear programs have civilian as well as defense applications, says Rod Geer, a spokesman for the labs. Du Pont uses nuclear materials at Savannah River for testing cancer therapy...