Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wakes up, at worst, on the floor, with nothing more than a slight bump. The real space traveler can count on no such happy ending. Space scientists believe that he will have to learn to live with a feeling of helpless falling while he flies through the stage of zero gravity. His nightmare will also include arms and legs that do not respond normally, and a sickening mental confusion about which...
...maximum extensity of one's love is, of course, to love the whole Universe(not merely mankind) while the "zero point of love extensity", Sorokin said, "is a love of oneself only...
...handrail was bent. Shelves of groceries seemed unharmed. A power substation was 95% operable. The telephone system showed little damage. The blast had blown out fires that had been started by the searing heat of the explosion. Underground gas lines to houses less than a mile from ground zero were undamaged. And the Atomic Energy Commission could report: "Out of the ten houses included in the test, the condition of seven was such that they could be made habitable for emergency occupancy by shoring and repairs." Most radios in the houses ran, and not a TV picture tube was found...
During one of the aboveground blasts, 2,000 marines crouched in 6-ft. trenches within sight of ground zero. In a matter of minutes after the fireball disappeared, some 1,400 were being helicoptered in to seize the atomized battlefield, theoretically blasted clean of enemy troops. For the 13th shot, the Army's Task Force Razor this week was poised to ride out the explosion in the most exposed surface position to date: in Patton tanks, spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground...
...highest-rated show, the Lux Radio Theater, reached 11 million homes. In March 1955, again the highest-rated show, it reached 3,000,000 homes. Between 1948 and 1954 network time sales dipped from $137.5 million to $76 million. In that time TV advertising went from practically zero to $320.1 million, while all four radio networks dropped in sales volume...