Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus far, the H-bomb's fail-safe systems have not been foiled even by shattering falls from high altitudes, as happened at Palomares. In that accident, two hydrogen bombs split open on impact and spilled plutonium, dusting nearby farms, which had to be tediously decontaminated. The same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h...
Amid today's increasing pressure for business growth through merger, it is inevitable that some corporate marriages turn out unhappily. Yet divorce, which ends a quarter of the marriages among the nation's people, remains a comparative rarity among companies. Last week, in an unusual split-up intended to revitalize the fortunes of both companies, the oil-realty-finance combine of Sunasco Inc. formally dissolved its ties with subsidiary Sunset International Petroleum Corp...
...part, Sunasco suffered from a classical pitfall of corporate mergers: split management. With Wolgin and Sterling sharing command, and with a board of directors evenly divided between their supporters, a deadly stalemate persisted while problems mounted. The impasse ended only when both men turned operational control over to Rozet, a onetime production-line engineer for Douglas Aircraft who was then financial vice president of Sunasco. Rozet decided that the only solution was to rip the combine apart again...
Bucks in the Gutter. Because contests are competitive, most oil companies keep the results secret, and players have no way of knowing how long the odds are. But they are trying all kinds of gambits to make them shorter. Newspapers carry personal ads seeking matches, with an offer to split the prize. John Racanelli, owner of a Chicago pizza parlor, is typical; he spent $8 advertising in two papers for the other half of his $2,500 Dino Dollar card. "Everybody who called had the same coupon I did," says Racanelli. "I never won anything...
...force of 2,900 miners, which will grow to 4,500, life around Thompson is rugged. The thermometer in midwinter hovers around-50°F., reaches zero only in late March. Housing is critically short and expensive, schools operate on split shifts because of the growing student population, food has to be shipped in from Winnipeg 400 air miles away. Contact with the outside world is through old shows on cable TV, three-day-old newspapers, or an unreliable air service that does the best it can with aging DC-3s and DC-4s. Not surprisingly, in spite of weekly...