Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Under the "big-hole" theory worked out by U.S. scientists, an explosion in a very large, spherical underground chamber would be muffled by a factor of as much as 300 to 1, so that a 100-kiloton explosion would set up no stronger a tremor than an unmuffled one-third kiloton explosion, and would thus go entirely undetected. Excavating a big-enough hole half-a-mile underground would be exceedingly costly, but perhaps worthwhile if the the U.S.S.R. very badly wanted to test a nuclear device bigger than 19 kilotons...
...Third Column. Now thoroughly frightened, the authorities mobilized the 3,000-man air force for standby alert and threw companies of armed soldiers and sailors around the two big African residential locations at Cape Town to prevent another march on the city, a move that also kept thousands of Africans from their jobs in a city already partially paralyzed by lack of labor. In the countryside the entire citizens' defense force of 23,000 civilian reservists was alerted and 40% of its units put on active duty. Truckloads of skietkommandos, mostly young Boer farmers recruited from rifle clubs, sped...
...struck next. Out from the tough slums of Cato Manor, the big African location near the lovely port city of Durban, surged three phalanxes of angry blacks waving ax handles and carrying stones. Two groups were turned back by armored cars bristling with fast-firing Bren guns. But the third column headed for Central Prison shouting, "Give us our leaders!" before the police could stop it. It moved swiftly up handsome West Street, busiest of the shopping boulevards. Suddenly the police were firing, and within minutes three Africans were dead and 22 wounded lay writhing in the street...
...favorite tactic: he takes a trip. Last week he climbed aboard a chartered Pan American DC-6 (estimated cost: $250,000), smiled at his favorite stewardess-curvesome, redheaded Joanie Sweeney-and took off on a two-month world tour (India, Iraq, Soviet satellites, U.A.R., Africa and Cuba), his third in three years. Behind him he left a country bogged in inflationary chaos, a nasty diplomatic quarrel with Peking, a desultory but costly rebellion, and fresh political confusion created by his last-minute appointment of a new Parliament to replace the elected...
...spring thaw in interest rates last week showed signs of turning into a freshet of easier money. For the third week in a row, the average yield of 91-day Treasury bills dropped sharply, hit 3.03%, lowest since the 2.87% yield last May 25, and well below the record 4.67% just before Christmas. Other short-and long-term rates were also well down from their peaks...