Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Hemingway broke camp after five months of hunting and writing and set out for Africa's east coast to fish, he hired Pilot Marsh and his four-place Cessna. Last week Pilot Marsh left Nairobi for an African village named Masindi, planning to circle the spectacular Murchison Falls of the Victoria Nile on the way. But Marsh and the Hemingways never arrived at Masindi. A B.Q.A.C. plane, diverted from its route to search for them, found the Cessna in trees near the falls and reported that there was no sign of life to be seen...
...ring, big enough to encircle seven baseball diamonds laid end to end, will be a sight like nothing else on earth, but what it will do for scientists may be even more spectacular. The accelerators already in operation (most powerful is Brookhaven's 2.3 bev cosmotron) have revealed that the nuclei of atoms are anything but simple...
...major difficulty of the French command in Indo-China is to come to grips with the Viet Minh. They are like a swarm of flies buzzing around a tree. If you shake the tree they fly away in all directions . . . The Viet Minh tried to win a cheap, spectacular success to compensate for their failure in the vitally important Red River delta, where they have been unable to gain any substantial advantage." General Navarre, in a special message to his troops, said that he "fully expects" to beat the Communists and end the seven-year war in six months...
Nautilus. By Rickover's hard-driving methods and the work of his equally hard-working staff, the nuclear submarine (named Nautilus* almost by necessity) made spectacular progress. The hull and the radical propulsion system were designed simultaneously. Most iffy item, of course, was the nuclear reactor itself...
...rejection of Communism by the overseas Chinese, Nixon found, is "one of the most spectacular developments" in Asia. "What are the reasons?" he asked himself, and answered: "I talked to a farmer ... He told me how he, his wife and two small children had walked for a hundred miles through the mainland of China until they arrived at the [Hong Kong] border . . . The reason was that his only brother was blind . . . He couldn't produce as much as the Communists required . . . The Communists took him away and shot...