Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bragged of his strength. He has 25,000 regulars under arms, he said, and another 600,000 men with military training who could readily be called up. His fast frigates and whining jets patrol both his own coasts and those of next-door Haiti, and he has a special Anti-Communist Foreign Legion of ex-army men, ready to march into Haiti if anti-Trujillo invaders land there...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...Alamos men decide to give Kiwi-A a second full-power run, last week's test will probably be its finish. After a few days, when radioactivity dies down somewhat, the unshielded reactor will be hauled along a railroad track by a remote-controlled locomotive to a special MAD (Maintenance, Assembly and Disassembly) shop, where mechanical hands will take it apart. The condition of its still deadly interior parts (examined by periscope, TV, or through thick, transparent shields) will tell the Los Alamos men much about how to build nuclear rockets that actually fly. The code names for them...
...miles away. The mountains are only a short drive. Near by are many science-strong schools: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston University. Says M.I.T.'s Engineering Dean Gordon Brown: "To have a place where research-based companies can grow up, you must have a special climate where people are interested in ideas, where they meet to discuss them. These companies are started by people with an intellectual, venturesome spirit...
...MISSIONARIES-"No undertaking, perhaps, is so pleasing to God as this, for it is intimately linked with that duty binding all-the spreading of God's kingdom." Of all in mission work in any capacity, the Pope said: "We desire them to know that they have a very special place in our heart...