Word: branch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Essay on Effect. In St. Ann, Mo., a book titled Ten Days to a Successful Memory was returned ten months overdue to a branch of the St. Louis County Library with a note: "I just forgot all about having...
...launch, the two aluminum arms were folded against the satellite's side. As the solid-fueled third stage was about to fire some 150 miles above the earth, they snapped out into position. Each arm branched in two directions and each branch carried a flat paddle about the size of a checkerboard, covered with 2,000 silicon-based solar cells mounted on a thin plastic honeycomb (an elaboration of the light-collecting window in Vanguard I, which still draws in enough energy to keep the tiny satellite busily broadcasting 17 months after it was launched). At 22,000 m.p.h...
...make sure that all cancer victims who can be successfully treated get help, and to find ways of saving the half who are now doomed, NCI, a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service, is mounting history's most intensive campaign against a human illness. Its budget is skyrocketing: from $14 million when Dr. Heller took over in 1948 to $75 million in the fiscal year just ended, to a probable $100 million in the fiscal year just begun. It musters the efforts of 675 direct employees and thousands of independent researchers through grants and contracts...
...Shippingport, Pa. (pop. 400), where since 1957 a nuclear power plant has produced electricity, did Kozlov look as though he had grabbed hold of a hot wire. The hot wire: none other than Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, the deadpan boss of the Atomic Energy Commission's Naval Reactors Branch...
...announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile, federal Internal Revenue agents were winding up a full-scale investigation of his financial affairs, which may roil Ole Earl's troubled waters. ¶ Bedeviled by what one of his psychiatrists called "the pressures of being the childless branch of a dynasty." Long announced plans to adopt 14-year-old David Rankin. whom he had met in the Galveston hospital. The boy. said the Governor, had beaten him at poker with a "Mexican straight" (a hand consisting of deuce. 4. 6. 8 and 10). The boy's surprised...