Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As befits a nation ruled through most of its 130 years by dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas...
Soon after left-wing British Author J. B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife Jacquetta arrived in Australia last month for a ban-the-bomb peace conference, they decided that they did not like being Down Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the...
The facts: diethylstilbestrol (stilbestrol for short) is a synthetic of the same chemical family as the female sex hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use...
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...
Other difficulties were politico-economic; the businessmen of CERN's participating nations jockeyed for bigger shares of the fat engineering contracts. But the scientists, including Communist Yugoslavs, worked in amity. At CERN there were no weapons projects and no problems of national security. "Any scientist can work here, help...