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[News Script: Beauty contest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the 12 finalists of the Miss Fort Worth pageant visiting the city's Jaycee's luncheon.
Date: March 23, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flagpole]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a flag being tied to the top of WBAP-TV's transmission tower.
Date: March 6, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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An Improved Nuclear Measuring Principle : Quarterly Progress Report No. 3 Covering the Period from December 1, 1959 to March 1, 1960

Description: This report is the third in a series of quarterly reports discussing the concept and progression of an improved method in nuclear measuring than the usage of the scintillation counter. This report indicates that in a chopped double beam system, commutation of the detector current permits selection of optimum response time and size of radioactive sources.
Date: March 28, 1960
Creator: Burgwald, G. M. & Stone, C. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design Studies on Cesium-137 as a Source for High Level Gamma Irradiators: Quarterly Progress Report Number 3, December 1959 - March 1960

Description: Quarterly progress report describing work related to a study of radiation physics problems involved in the design of high-level cesium-137 gamma sources. It outlines work completed and ongoing goals for the project.
Date: March 23, 1960
Creator: Voyvodic, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CHARGE-EXCHANGE SCATTERING OF NEGATIVE PIONS BY HYDROGEN AT 230,260, 290, 317 AND 371 MeV

Description: The differential cross section for charge-exchange scattering of negative pions by hydrogen has been observed at 230, 260, 290, 317, and 371 Mev. The reaction was observed by detecting one gamma ray from the {pi}{sup 0} decay with a scintillation-counter telescope.
Date: March 18, 1960
Creator: Caris, John C
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strontium 90 Power Project: Final Summary Report

Description: From summary: The primary purpose of this project is to determine the feasibility of converting reactor waste Strontium-90 into a safe and useful source of electrical energy. Secondary purpose is physical and environmental testing of the power conversion device or thermoelectric couples. This required actual fabrication of a 100-thermal-watt strontium titanate fuel element
Date: March 1960
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Sitdown strike]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about black students protesting Weingarten's segregated lunch counter by staging a sit-in at the chain store.
Date: March 5, 1960
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Roy Wilkins]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Roy Wilkins, the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), visiting Dallas to address the slow process of school desegregation in Texas.
Date: March 5, 1960
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Banks fired]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Jay Banks fired from the police force after participating on a gambling syndicate.
Date: March 4, 1960
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Printers strike]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the International Typographical Union striking against the All-Church Press in Fort Worth.
Date: March 6, 1960
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Flag lowered]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the flag that was tied atop the WBAP-TV transmission tower being removed.
Date: March 7, 1960
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fatal accident]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Burrell Henry Odell, who dies as she and her husband crashed into a bridge abutment in Dallas.
Date: March 9, 1960
Duration: 51 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Plane crash]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a plane crash at Carswell Air Force base.
Date: March 9, 1960
Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: John M. Addison]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about uranium promoter John Milton Addison addressing his creditors in Dallas.
Date: March 13, 1960
Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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