Word: x
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the speech, a questioner pointed out that former ambassador George Kennan was the "Mr. X" of the lecture, since it was his ideas on the neutralization of Germany that Conant had opposed...
...Thurs., Jan. 23 VI, M 1 Wed., Jan. 22 VII, M 2 Sat., Jan. 25 VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII, T 3 Wed., Jan. 22 XVIII...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...
...Called X: "Our problem," said CBS Producer Harry Rasky, "was to take a dull subject and dramatize it." Rasky's subject: Civil Defense...
...inject it with drama, he had some 10,000 people in Portland, Ore., one of the U.S.'s 99 "critical targets," go through the motions of mass evacuation on the day "enemy" aircraft approached from the Aleutians, The Day Called X. Rasky's twelve-man technical crew, aided by publicity-eager federal Civil Defense experts and convoyed about the city by police motorcycle escort for three weeks, ably caught the mood of the day that began in an ordinary way. The cameras poked neatly around the well-stocked innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground...