Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Cornell's Hans Bethe. a former presidential adviser on disarmament and longtime crusader for the test-ban agreement, set out to describe the kind of detection network that would adequately police a ban on underground explosions. In describing a system that would require 600 seismograph stations spread across the U.S.S.R. alone, Bethe only convinced his congressional listeners that the feat of detection was just as impossible as Teller said...
...orange juice. With such prominent assurances as "100% pure," "no sugar, water or preservatives added," and "packed under continuous inspection," he is led to believe that the company president squeezed the juice directly into the carton with his own hands. Last week that belief suffered a blow that could set off the rediscovery of fresh oranges. In the Florida citrus industry's biggest scandal in years, Tropicana Products Inc., the world's biggest dealer in fresh chilled orange juice,* was accused of spiking its juice with sugar syrup...
Died. Manley Ottmer Hudson, 73, Harvard's longtime (1923-54) Bemis Professor of International Law, and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1936 to 1945, who in 1944 set forth principles of world law that were later watered down and incorporated in the United Nations charter; after a long illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Spain. Still only 26, and now living in Paris, he tries in The Disinherited to revisit the Spanish revolution, which flamed around him when he was a child. At this distance, memory is small help, and the tales of heroes and sufferers take on the shadowy cast of legend. Set against the tough honesty of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, or José Maria Gironella's The Cypresses Believe in God, this novel has the air of a routine reconstruction. Yet it deserves to be read as a reminder of old passions and issues that...
...Balcony. To French ex-Convict Jean Genet the world is a brothel, and his play-more interesting for its conception and staging than for the playwright's wild threshings of language-is set in a brothel where customers are dressed as bishops, judges and generals to salve their egos...