Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...plotters bided their time (and even put down one subplot to assassinate the Emperor last year). But Haile Selassie's trip to remote Brazil seemed ideal. One morning before dawn the Imperial Guard, led by rebel officers, seized strong points in Addis Ababa, including all communication centers. Asfa Wassan named Imru as Premier and went on the radio to explain that the purpose of the coup was to end "3,000 years of injustice . . . The Ethiopian people have waited patiently to be freed of oppression, poverty and ignorance." The Crown Prince promised to set up a true constitutional monarchy...
...neighborhood saw any particular reason to cheer. But at the University of California's Livermore Radiation Laboratory, the news brought joy to the hearts of a pair of bright young scientists. To Geologist Donald Rawson, 26, and Physicist Gary Higgins, 33, the new lava pool sounded like an ideal testing site for a key phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare: a plan for harnessing a steam-powered turbogenerator to the tremendous heat released by underground nuclear explosions...
...compressed air, found that this speeded their drilling up to the rate of a foot an hour. Finally, at 19½ ft. the bit sank into molten lava after passing through temperatures as high as 1,967°-more than the heat a nuclear blast would produce in an ideal Plowshare experiment...
...various reasons the Boynton case was a less-than-ideal test of such a far reaching issue. Any decision would almost certainly have been taken to apply to the touchy sit-in demonstrations that have flared up in eating places all over the South. But the U.S. Justice Department, entering the case as a friend of the court, filed a brief which contended that Boynton's conviction also violated the statu tory (as opposed to constitutional) provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, which forbids interstate busline operators from exercising any kind of "unjust discrimination" or "unreasonable prejudice", against...
Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark...