Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion marked the start of a new and crucial phase in the development of France's atomic arsenal. From the four explosions in the Sahara in 1960-61 and subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40 or 50 force de frappe Mirage IV jet bombers are able to carry only one apiece. What the French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence...
...least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, a lady's bedchamber still served as a reception room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder...
Neither latter-day account of the Cambodia caper is written in spite. Langlois cites the run-in with the laws of French colonial bureaucracy as the start of Malraux's fervent anticolonialism. Indeed, he did return to Indochina to start an independence movement, beginning his long flirtation with revolutionaries that led him to fight in China during the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s. Clara is hardly bitter; she even seeks to justify the theft. "Love," says she, "gives one rights...
...Analyzer Unit conducts similar screenings, except that CBS's sample viewers operate not dials but buttons-pushing the green one when they like what they see, the red one when they don't. This week the previewers will also be wired for sounding. Audience Surveys Inc. will start using a device that measures reactions by electrodes attached to the fingers; the electrodes measure basal skin resistance, and if a sampler is relaxed and enjoying the show, there is literally no sweat...
Nielsen's chief trial lawyer, George McBurney, conceded that his evidence so far is only circumstantial. "But you've got to admit," he added, "that it's pretty good. And this is just the start...