Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most vital piece of intelligence since World War II was the report laid on President Truman's desk on Sept. 23, 1949, stating that the Russians had exploded their first atomic bomb. The report was the handiwork of no secret agent but a highly secret, highly effective U.S. detection system sensitive enough to pick up traces of important Soviet land or air bursts. For the first time the name of the hero of the system slipped into public print last week, when President Eisenhower presented a Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award to Atomic Detective Doyle L. (for Langdon) Northrup...
...pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something called AFOAT-1, a special project of the Air Force Office of Atomic Energy so secret that his bosses refused to say they knew...
...Chuck Medick began tuning up at local tournaments for the National Table Tennis Championships at Inglewood, Calif, in March, where he hopes to break his own record of scoring 54 matches at table tennis' biggest event. Medick's refereeing is uncanny, although he cannot quite explain the secret: "I just do something a blind man can do well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college (Western Reserve...
...decided to pull up stakes, and after the New York Li'l Abner company died in Toronto and Sunrise at Campobello sank Jan. 6 in Toledo, with total losses of about $200,000, the lists last week showed only seven shows on tour. The reason was no secret. Subscription-sponsored tours, such as those promoted by the Theatre Guild through 23 cities, have a fighting chance, but big-name actors no longer like to hit the road, and road-show audiences are no longer satisfied unless they see big-name actors. "Producers forget that the U.S. has become...
...molten metal and found that its bottom side took on a shiny finish. In the full-scale machine, which took seven years to get working properly, a wide ribbon of soft glass is floated in a tank of molten metal (the metal or alloy used is a trade secret). As the ribbon moves to the far end of the tank, it is cooled by a controlled atmosphere and finally solidifies. The result is a sheet of glass that is mirror-flat and fire-bright...