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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recalculating the results of its underground shot in October 1958, has discovered that underground explosions below 20 kilotons (about Hiroshima size) cannot accurately be detected by known seismographic instruments (TIME, Jan. 12). Meanwhile, the U.S. has had to hold up development of "clean" (low-fallout) bombs and smaller thermonuclear weapons. Sample result: a delay in the smaller warhead for the second-generation Minuteman intercontinental missile...
...like its visible side. But astronomers find it surprisingly different. They point to the comparative lack of the big, roundish, dark "seas" that are so common on its known face. The area newly pictured shows only one really big sea, which the Russians named the Sea of Dreams. A smaller sea they named the Sea of Moscow, and to several craters they gave the names of Communist or Russian scientist heroes. (Discoverers of lunar features have long been privileged to name them as they please, and it seems likely that nearly every major feature on the moon...
...evening study date will usually end up in "The Spoon," the place-to-go for Sarah Lawrence. Complete with good food, dim lighting, and a juke box, it is an ideal place for coffee and conversation. Similar on a smaller scale to Cronin's, the Spoon is not strictly a college hangout; residents from the area come also to consume bottles of beer from the counter or liquor from...
During the day, efforts were made to show the Russians as much of Cambridge and Boston as possible, and this included the obligatory visits to the John Hancock Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Commons, Widener Library and the Yard, etc. In addition, smaller groups paid visits to hospitals, a reform school, Newton High School, and a Polaroid-Land factory...
With leader Walter Carrington '52, ten students from this country spent three weeks living with educated African families in the Nigerian capital of Lagos. Then, for five weeks, the group traveled through smaller cities and villages...