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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountainsides or the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC wouldn't even give reporters the time of day of an A-blast, or the day. So, for three weeks of icy daybreaks, almost 100 reporters clambered up the mountainsides and stood in five-inch snow, peering towards the test site at Frenchman's Flat, waiting for a blast. By last week, when the first big explosion finally came, one-third of the correspondents had given up in disgust. By week's end, all but a handful had gone...
Ancient Point Four. About 1300 A.D., Sears decided, a thriving village surrounded the site of the mound. Its 1,000 inhabitants lived around a ten-acre plaza. At one end was a low earthen pyramid with a temple of some sort on top. The Kolomoki people were prosperous; they raised corn, beans and squash, probably imported at some earlier period from the high civilizations of Central or South America...
...conjunction with another Harvardman, Ebenezer Pemberton '21, Governor Belcher secured a legal and liberal charter for the College of New Jersy and chose Princeton as the site. Beyond this, Belcher used his influence in England to get funds for the struggling institution and tried to attract the sons of prominent Massachusetts families as students. In humble gratitude the Princeton trustees wanted to name their first building "Belcher Hall," but the governor declined and suggested the name "Nassau Hall...
...usual, the AEC maintained a guarded silence, admitting only that another explosion in the current tests had taken place. But newsmen camped in the hills overlooking the site thought it was a medium-sized tactical atomic bomb with an explosive force equal to about ten tons of TNT, a weapon small enough to be carried by a fighter plane and used in direct support of troops in the field...
First they agreed that neither of the opposing commanders should be held responsible for the actions of "partisans" or "irregulars" not under military control. Next, in a workmanlike series of compromises, it was agreed that the conference site at Panmunjom should be protected by a neutral zone 1,000 yards (about five-eighths of a mile) in radius, that three-mile radius circles around Kaesong and Munsan and a 400-meter (438-yard) corridor along the access roads should be free from hostile attack. Finally, the Reds accepted the U.N. assurance that flights over the protected zones would be limited...