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Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, with Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr. Color...
...pennant. The Minnesota Twins, whose good hitters were supposed to make up for their suspect pitchers, have been more consistent; both batters and pitchers have been wretched, and the Twins are as high as eighth place only by grace of three recent wins over the slumping Red Sox. Bob Allison is hitting, but the rest of the team is not, and the Twins show few signs of ever becoming challengers...
Three veterans bolster the Twins' artillery--Vic Power (.290) at first, and Harmon Killebrew (48 homers and 126 RBIs to lead the AL in both departments) and Bob Allison (29 homers and 102 RBIs) in the outfield...
Fermi let the reaction run on for 28 minutes, then ordered it stopped. Hungarian-born Physicist Eugene Wigner brought out a bottle of Chianti. Fermi sent out for paper cups. Nobody offered a toast-the moment was too solemn for that. Wrote Physicist Samuel K. Allison, a top Fermi assistant, in a recent article: "All of us in the laboratory knew that with the advent of the chain reaction the world would never be the same again...
...Eastern Air Lines Electra crash on Oct. 4, 1960, just after take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport (62 dead, 10 survivors), was probably caused by starlings sucked into three of the aircraft's four Allison turboprop engines. The birds' bodies clogged the turbines so that power was insufficient to keep the Electra airborne. Two Federal Aviation Agency scientists had already raised an eerie possibility. Wrote they after studying sound patterns: "The Electra sound spectrum contains an audible chirp which appears identical in frequency and wave form to the chirp of field crickets. Field observations strongly...