Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Age of subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
Like many scientists before him, Metallurgist William Buehler was blessed with serendipity, the gift of finding something valuable without actually looking for it. Assigned by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Maryland to find a nonmagnetic and noncorroding material for tools that could be safely used in dismantling magnetic mines, he finally hit upon 55-Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. During further experiments, however, he discovered that the alloy also had a strange and mysterious quality in the realm of science fiction: It had a "memory...
...themselves and their patients, is Topeka State Hospital. Kansas' state capital, with a population of only 133,000, has long proclaimed itself on roadside signs as "the Psychiatric Center of the World." That was based largely on the fame of the Menninger brothers, Karl A. and the late William C., and their private C. F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, universally miscalled "the Menninger Clinic...
Earlier this year, a California federal court judge, William T. Sweigert, claimed that if Mrs. Hecht's portfolio had been left untouched from 1957 to 1964, its value would have increased from $533,161 to $1,026,775. Instead, her account plunged to $251,308. The judge found that Mrs. Hecht's account had been "grossly and unfairly churned" by more than 10,000 transactions in an effort to generate commissions. Judge Sweigert therefore ordered that the firm pay Mrs. Hecht $504,391 in damages. Harris, Upham is appealing that decision...
...temperature: 105 degrees) blasted by winds of hurricane force. Its inlets are infested with crocodiles and surrounded by lions, vipers and cobras. Its inhabitants, the Turkana and Suk tribesmen, are dying off. Not surprisingly, only a few white men have ever explored the lake. One of them is Actor William Holden, who was camping there last week...