Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times's story (see PRESS) that the missile ship had fired three nuclear-armed rockets 300 miles into space in what one enthusiast called "the greatest scientific experiment ever conducted." If it was not quite that, it was certainly one of history's most spectacular scientific experiments. Its name: Project Argus. The glowing accounts of the scientific results (see SCIENCE) missed the point that Project Argus was also the most spectacular nuclear-missile-launching project in the history of a U.S. Navy that anchors its future in mobile, missile-launching sea power...
...mystery of the island was merely the most spectacular recent example of something that occurs almost daily throughout Mexico. By law, not a single item of pre-Columbian culture may be unearthed without permission; no pre-Columbian object of any value may be taken out of the country. Yet the collector's yen for these objects is so insatiable that local dealers, anthropologists, private Mexican collectors have become smugglers to fill the pipelines to the U.S. and Europe...
...certainly the right of Jews to choose Zion instead of gas ovens or less spectacular forms of persecution," Judge Justine W. Polier, an official of the American Jewish Congress, stated in a fiery debate with Norman Thomas on "Israel's Immigration Policy," last night at Jordan Hall...
...other Japanese women the gains have been less spectacular, but in their limited horizons, more revolutionary and of greater significance. Even in the rural districts, where women still work 14 hours a day, and man is still treated as danna-sama (the master), there is change. Explains a countrywoman: "The farm wife is quite willing to work just as hard as before, but she wants to be treated like a human being." Girls are no longer sold to textile factories by their parents-now the factories try to lure them by "guaranteeing a husband before...
...fact is that excellence tends to breed excellence, and for this reason a long string of individual stars have come to Harvard over the years, giving Harvard an often spectacular top five as well as an astonishing number of National Intercollegiate Champions. Until Yale's fine victory this winter, Harvard was the only college ever to win the National Team Championship--ten times--and in the past few years the names Ufford, Heckscher and Sears emphasize Harvard's striking dominance...