Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though little noticed, France has developed a solid and tidy atomic capability. The fissionable substance in the French bomb was plutonium. The French have been producing plutonium since 1948, now get their supply from three reactors located at Marcoule, near Avignon in southern France. Together the three turn out about 100 kilograms of plutonium a year. In anyone's nuclear language, this is a respectable amount of plutonium, and with it France can turn out an estimated twelve atomic bombs a year, in the 20-200 kiloton range. By the end of 1961, when two reactors now under construction...
Imperturbably at midweek the President flew to Florida for a tour of the Cape Canaveral missile-test center. For 3¼ hours he was led through a forest of gantries for the liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan, the solid-fueled Polaris and Pershing. He praised the base's "minimum of extravagance and maximum of efficiency," said, "I came back with a much better feeling than I had before I went down there...
...money than good planning has gone into the horseshoe's erratic growth. While Toronto is a pretty, leafy city, most of the others are depressingly ugly, and Chairman Frederick Gardiner of the Toronto Metropolitan Council warns that by 1975 the area will be a "wilderness," consisting of "one solid city from Oshawa to Niagara Falls." Whether wilderness or wonderland, the horseshoe seems sure of even more development. Last year Oshawa (pop. 58,000) made its first efforts at locating a new factory or two, got six. Says its Industrial Development Commissioner:"All we have to do is let companies...
Blackout. The intruder was first sighted, at midmorning three weeks ago, by a sonar operator during a training-patrol mission of three destroyers. The sonar's ping indicated a solid object moving slowly 90 ft. below the surface of the 30 mi. by 40 mi. Golfo Nuevo. The sonar target outsped the attacking destroyers, and out went a call for planes. A few hours later, a Neptune antisub plane reported spotting a submarine; ships and planes attacked, but the target disappeared...
...Fault. Before the finals, Clara sprayed Gossie's coat lightly with water ("It quiets the hair-there's so much electricity in it"), then carried him into the ring. With anxious, quizzical eyes, Gossie peered up at the judge feeling for the solid, strong body that has been a requirement of the breed since it was brought out of China in 1860 by the British. With Clara hustling alongside, Chik T'Sun glided across the floor with the approved controlled roll. After hesitating over a broad-chested bulldog and a frisky Pembroke Welsh corgi, the judge pointed...