Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seaboard. During the periods of January to April 1953 and December 1953 to April 1954, Dr. Spar and his assistants at New York University selected 37 "meteorological situations." Ten hours ahead of the time that they thought the clouds would be ripe for seeding, they telephoned Norfolk, Va. When zero hour came, three planes flew parallel tracks, dropping trails of Dry Ice. Simultaneously, 17 ground generators, from Tampa, Fla. to New York City, filled the air with silver iodide particles. Guided by chance, the Norfolk seeders reserved 19 of the 37 situations as "controls," which were left unseeded. The meteorologists...
Sense Is for Horses. Says Los Angeles Safety Council President J. T. Blalock, "There are those who say that we've got to figure on an irreducible minimum [of accidents]. I disagree. The irreducible minimum is zero." Washington's Safety Director Anthony Ellison counts on the citizen's cooperation. Without it, he says, "You've got nothing." Los Angeles and Washington had fewest deaths per vehicle last year among cities in their population groups, with past leaders Detroit and San Francisco close runners-up. Last year's booby prizes in the large city groups...
...lonely hours between midnight and 3 a.m., Graves is still checking, between catnaps and gin rummy games. To help predict the blast effects of each atomic explosion, World War II Navy depth charges containing 2,400 Ibs. of TNT are exploded two hours and one hour before zero hour. In the morning, when Graves gives the order, eight scientists ride an elevator up the tower to the device cabin to arm the explosive device. They report each move by telephone to Graves in the command post. A checklist of from three to eight pages long is read aloud...
...lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full 15 minutes through a maze of relays, switches, condensers, coils, filaments and generators. There are safety checks along the way, fuses and other devices that can take back Dr. Graves' decision up to half a second before the zero second, but if all goes well, the current at last rams into the device, and a mushroom cloud stands miles high over the concrete bunker where Dr. Graves gave the word...
Suspense (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS). Revival of Ray Bradbury's space thriller, Zero Hour...