Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over to the Nazis. In Argentina in 1946, he showed the same brilliant talent for beating a profitable retreat. Facing confiscation, he somehow maneuvered Dictator Peron into buying I.T. & T. there...
...Biggest loser: Paul A. Siple (TIME, Dec. 31), scientific boss of the polar party, down to 217 Ibs. from his normal 250. All of the pole sitters are in good health and spirits despite such inconveniences as a recent temperature of 100.4° below zero-a record...
Straus began the season by winning the football championship, and going on to defeat their Yale counterparts, 40 to 19. The team took the events in basketball, 17 and 5; hockey, nine and zero; softball,nine and one; and also won individual championships in rowing and tennis. Second places were scored in track and swimming. The Straus team was paced in softball by the pitching of Tommy Walker, who is a non-resident student associated with the Straus South dormitory...
Last week the Gomulka government established a new first in satellite propaganda: by releasing the long-suppressed antiprostitution film Paragraph Zero, it began a serious campaign to end past blindness and falsehood. But this was only a beginning. Advised Social Analyst Lastik: "We should concern ourselves with the moral state of our public...
...dissolved the ash in dilute acid. The solution showed characteristic gamma rays that could come only from cobalt 60. This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero. To make doubly sure. Weiss and Shipman ran a careful analysis. One clam proved to contain one-tenth of a microcurie of cobalt 60; the other had one-third of a microcurie...