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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money to explore the area. Even in E.N.I.'s successful gas operation, there has been trouble. In the rush to draw off natural gas from the Po Valley fields, E.N.I, failed to seal a well properly. As a result, methane has leaked through large areas of porous upper strata, ruining crops and wasting...
...press conference, the President related that he had asked the TVA expansion advocates, "Well, now, are you ready to support this kind of development for the Upper Mississippi?" They just looked at him and said, "That is outside the question." But it wasn't outside the question to him, said Ike. Nothing in the Dixon-Yates contract could raise by a single cent the prices that TVA charges its customers, the President added, so if there is anything political in it, someone is making it that...
Abiding Necessity. The new pragmatic nationalists have the upper hand: they know how to get things done. "European fanatics" is a term they increasingly use to describe men like Jean Monnet. Mendès-France signaled the change at the Brussels Conference when he demanded as one of his conditions for accepting EDC that members of the Coal-Steel High Authority be forbidden to take jobs under EDC. He was plainly gunning for Monnet...
...harbor and drenching a city with "hot" spray) there was little to fear from radioactivity. The bomb's initial burst of gamma rays affected few people. If the bomb exploded high in the air (the approved position), its radioactive fission products were carried aloft and dissipated in the upper atmosphere. When they sifted down thousands of miles away, they could be detected by sensitive instruments, but their activity was far too weak to damage human wellbeing...
...most valid objection to requiring lower or upper level Natural Science courses for science majors is not that the courses are unnecessary, but that they are unsophisticated. Really worthwhile instruction must be in small discussion groups, where the subjects could be tailored to the interests and preparation of the students. A typical group might discuss, for example, how science has at times succumbed to social pressures, yet has still affected the philosophical assumptions of the world around it. But if separate groups were formed for students of biology and physics, it is important that they should not be afraid...