Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partners will spend millions more before they are through. Tibaitata's biggest search is to discover ways to utilize the sun-seared, flash-flooded llanos, barren plains that comprise 60% of Colombia's land, house only 2% of its population. It is a search that not only Colombia but all South America watches with mounting interest. With its population growing at the world's fastest rate, by the year 2000 Latin America will be second only to Asia in numbers, and in desperate need of productive land...
...effort at the Brussels World's Fair, is staffed by white-coated scientists and 50 attractive, multilingual girls, who were put through a three-week crash course in basic nucleonics. The U.S. is showing two real live nuclear reactors, and four real and working fusion devices, which flash like lightning when crew-cut young scientists throw the switches. The U.S. exhibit cost $4,500,000. No other nation has anything comparable. The only item in the Soviet exhibit to draw much popular interest is nonnuclear: a gleaming model of Sputnik...
...children. Rattan Kumar and Baby Naaz, flash from delight to fear to solemn determination with startling virtuosity. From her scrawny, seven-year-old frame, Actress Naaz somehow sums up the whole history of her sex, chattering happily as she works with her brother, huddling against him for warmth, patting his arm in a crisis and reassuring him, "I'll manage it somehow." Raj Kapoor trains his camera on them almost without a break, and they have rewarded him by endowing his film with the gentle luster of a miniature masterpiece...
...Burnham, 37, checked for a weather report with Cape Cod's Otis Air Force Base. He got welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of the island's murky flash fogs, rolling in from the sea with bewildering speed. Burnham, using Nantucket's Visual Omni Range beam, prepared for an instrument approach. But the fog thickened until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair by voice radio-and could not reach...
...flash was the explosion of a nuclear weapon over Johnston Island, 700 miles from Honolulu. Unquestionably, it was the highest ever exploded by the U.S. To be seen direct in Honolulu, it must have occurred many miles above the earth, and estimates put it as high as 100 miles. The AEC announced only: "the test detonation of a nuclear warhead missile." Speculation was that the warhead had been hurled aloft by the Army's Redstone missile, providing Hawaii with a preview of what the explosion will look like when an anti-missile attacks an invading missile...