Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sailing in International Twelve-Foot Dinghies at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy over the weekend, skipper Tim Black with crew Tad Kramarczyk won the New England Single Division Freshman Championship. In capturing the Priddy Trophy for the first time since 1952, the freshmen close out a highly successful season with the best record in New England...
Final scores: Harvard, 34, MIT, 41, Dartmouth, 47, Coast Guard, 51, B. U., 51, Northeastern, 62, Tufts, 69, Yale, 86, Bowdoin, 91, Merrimack, 108, and Maine Maritime...
Right after the vote, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant informed Peking by telegram of the General Assembly action. Four days later came a terse cable, signed by Peking's Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei. A delegation would be coming "in the near future," it said; there was speculation, but no confirmation, that it could arrive this week. In no uncertain terms, Chi made it clear that Peking wanted the Nationalists ousted not only from the U.N. but also from the 13 specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Union. "I believe," Chi concluded briskly, that...
...give aid to the people of East Bengal through the U...
Ordinary reactors "burn" uranium 235, which eventually becomes stable lead. Breeders use either U-235 or man-made plutonium for fuel, but also use as a "fertile" material (a nonfissionable substance that absorbs excess neutrons freed in the chain reaction and becomes fissionable) another form of uranium called U-238. In addition to being more common than U-235, this uranium isotope, when struck by a hurtling neutron, does not break apart as does U-235. Instead, it absorbs the particle and is transmuted, by 20th century alchemy, into fissionable plutonium. Thus the breeder's fertile material is gradually...