Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swarthmore graduate who flew with General Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, is out to enhance his company's reputation by intensifying research into atom-age metals. The new emphasis has already produced an important breakthrough in fabrication of superconductors i.e., metals which when chilled to absolute zero lose their resistance to electricity. Wah Chang labs are now making colum-bium-zirconium alloy wire that scientists believe can be used to utilize the energy released by controlled nuclear fission...
...ingredient of the alliance was pledged early in the session, when U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon offered "at least $20 billion" in aid to Latin America during the next ten years. Much of the money, said Dillon, would be advanced in long-term loans "at very low or zero rates of interest." Dillon made it clear to even the most sensitive Latin ears that he was putting forward "a plan for debate, not a condition prior to aid." U.S. dollars were only one part of a program that called for land and tax reforms, the creation of a Latin...
...Sisters. Nineteen Shaker communities were founded, but the sect was doomed-partly by the growth of outside social services that drastically cut down the numbers of children brought to them to care for, but mainly by the Shaker birth rate of zero...
...Steel Pier moved into the full swing of its 64th season, so big and boffo that only the Atlantic Ocean can compete with it for the attention of tourists. The pier draws a steady 15,000 people a day, up to 28,000 when the weather stops on double zero. They are what Owner George Hamid calls the "high blue collar types." To keep them coming, Hamid gives them much more than corny carny fare, pays top fees for entertainment headliners. Among this season's top drawers: the Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller bands, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Spivak...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany on an unexpected charge: absenteeism. Noting that Meany refused to "tear himself away from the Florida sunshine to testify on the important minimum-wage bill," Powell, who usually plays his own hooky in Puerto Rico, evaluated the onetime Bronx plumber as "stupid" and "absolutely zero as a lobbyist and leader...