Word: sl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Texans John and Clint Murchison Jr. (TIME cover, June 16) ousted Wall Street Millionaire Allan Kirby from control of Alleghany Corp., Kirby growled ominously: "The Murchison boys are way out on a limb." Last week Kirby. who still holds the biggest single block (33⅓%) of Alleghany'sl common stock, reached for his saw. In a letter to the SEC, Kirby protested the Murchisons' proposal to split and reclassify the stock of Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $4 billion mutual fund complex currently controlled by Alleghany. Kirby clearly feared that if the Murchisons were allowed...
...wants to see: bullfights, sports-car rallies-but no bunnies." Somehow, it has occurred to Hefner that he is the Tony Curtis of publishing and he has arranged for Curtis to do the Hugh Hefner story on film. Moving by Cadillac limousine or Mercedes-Benz 300 SL between his office and the house that flesh built, Hefner is actually a living promotion stunt, the most conspicuous playboy of the Middle-Western world...
...more radical approach taken by David 'SL. HarFord II Professor of the . Of each lying our educational system, man seems to ask; what does it to help or hinder, the, development of man into what he--is Riesman view--ought to be? Thus he that American culture generally volves thinking in terms of quenoes or categories which boxed off from one another, Riesman, the question is not one accepting this pattern as given of working within it, but one of olding whether or not it is Riesman regards examinations grading as manifestations of pattern. A examination than marks...
...SL-1, designed to supply heat and power for Arctic DEW-line outposts, had been running successfully and efficiently for 2½ years, had been shut down for overhaul for two weeks. It was equipped with every built-in safeguard, every "fail safe" device known to science. What went wrong with SL-1? Although technicians could stay in the building for only brief periods, everything they saw suggested that the impossible had happened: the reactor had suddenly boiled up in a runaway atomic reaction. In thousandths of a second, its water coolant had been turned into superheated steam that ruptured...
Early in the subzero night, alarms flashed in three fire stations dotted across the lonely Idaho Falls test site of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Fire crews raced toward the gloomy silo housing the experimental nuclear reactor that the Army calls SL-1 (Stationary Low No. 1), suddenly ground to a halt at the silo door when their detection equipment registered lethal radiation. Lead-suited rescue workers took over, but inside the reactor room radiation was up to 1,000 roentgens an hour (450 is a man-killing dose). They could stay inside for just a few moments...