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...question arose as to whether the sycamores were London Plane Trees or perhaps Oriental Plane Trees imported from Indochina. Bernays rejoiced, "Maybe this will stir up more interest in saving the trees" and invited representatives from the British Horticultural Society and the Thal embassy to Cambridge to examine the trees...
...heartening sight to the Congo's government soldiers these days is that model T of an airplane, the T-28 trainer. Rigged with rockets and 50-cal. ma chine guns, half a dozen of the U.S.-donated aircraft have proved to be le thal weapons against the ragged rebels who are undermining the shaky regime of Premier Cyrille Adoula on the eve of the U.N.'s departure June...
...Inheritors, by William Golding In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neander thal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways...
...Polaris and Minuteman -which now carry warheads of one-half megaton, v. an estimated eight megatons for Soviet ICBMs. Testing would also speed development of a next-generation "neutron bomb." Now on the drawing boards, that weapon is designed to bom bard a specific area with showers of le thal, invisible neutron "bullets." Because its fusion reaction is to be triggered by conventional explosives instead of "dirty" fission, there is much less blast or radioactive contamination-so that the bombarded area is left intact and friendly troops could occupy it. Furthermore, neutron weapons would be much lighter and cheaper than...
Instead, Oppy went back to his twin professorships in theoretical physics at the University of California and Cal Tech. On the side, he helped draft the Lilien-thal-Acheson report, since January has headed the committee of distinguished scientists advising the Atomic Energy Commission...