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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aware that modern nuclear research is too expensive for any but the world's giant powers, twelve of Europe's nations* launched CERN in 1954 as a scientific venture in international cooperation. CERN's most ambitious project so far is the big accelerator. It cost $35 million...
The discovery suggested a clue to one of the great puzzles of Egyptology: Where was the birthplace of Egyptian culture? Although many authorities believe it is the world's oldest, they have been perplexed by the fact that it did not develop gradually in the Nile Valley. About 3200...
The mummy does not prove that there is a civilization buried in the Sahara but it does mean that, in the next few years, the desert will be swarming with anthropologists looking for one.
One man with an outside chance to outdrive Brabham for the championship in the last Grand Prix race of 1959 was Britain's nonchalant Stirling Moss, 30, who, on a good day and when his car holds up, is probably the world's best driver. But Moss, who...
Although his championship was safe, Brabham decided to try to win the title in style. Burning .rubber, he was in first place and in the last mile of the 218.4-mile race when his Cooper-Climax faltered and stopped, just 500 yds. from the finish line; a leak had emptied...