Word: materiales
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fortnight ago word leaked out that another nation had joined the U.S., Britain, Russia and France in the world's select little club of atomic powers. But which? Some said Sweden. But last week the London Daily Express reported that the new member of the club is Israel. The...
The cause seemed clear: radon, a dense gas that emanates from uranium, is highly radioactive and breaks down into products that are radioactive too. If there are more than 300 micromicrocuries of radioactive material per liter of air in a mine, the mine is officially rated unsafe. Investigators found air...
¶ "Children who are to become eminent do not like schools or schoolteachers." Many famed men found their own homes more stimulating, preferred to skip school and read books omnivorously. Today's "regimented schools" would not consider them college material.
Died. Negley Farson, 70, bestselling author (The Way of a Transgressor) and onetime foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Grandson of a Union Army general, hard-living Negley Farson drew the source material for his hard-bitten books from careers as an oil salesman in the U.S., engineer in...
The ultimate in barbiturate prose is the point at which tedium becomes coma, and perennially bestselling Author Keyes may have reached this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set...