Word: atomization
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Brown-eyed Betty Sanders of Brooklyn sang The Mighty Atom Bomb ("Hear the squawking friends of Hearst, they think we ought to use it first"); Lee Hays, son of an Arkansas preacher, told of his Rankin Tree ("It poisoned my potatoes, it poisoned my squash . . ."), and a pretty young union maiden named Eleanor Young did a slightly bawdy ballad about Mary Lee of the Bourgeoisie ("I've married Joe of the C.I.O."). Other topics: the Western Union strike, Churchill and Franco, housing ("I spend my days in Central Park and my nights on the I.R.T...
While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
Accusing the United States of being "too old fashioned in its thinking on the atomic bomb," Payson S. Wild, associate professor of Government, demanded recognition of the "qualitative and revolutionary changes in our position," and the immediate need for an international atom control commission, in his Tuesday lecture to the 400 students of Government...
...gestapo situation is definitely possible. If we live in such a tense world community as an atom race will produce, the national security must be placed paramount to all other considerations. Control of atomic information would have to be handed to the military, and then cloaked in secrecy. The more afraid we become, the tighter will become the secrecy. And the tighter the secrecy, the tighter the totalitarianism," he pointed...
Pressagent Russell Birdwell got in early with a stop-the-atom-bomb-test editorial for which the Military Order of the Purple Heart bought the space, giving Copywriter Birdwell a mammoth byline. Headline: WHERE ARE WE GOING? Hapless newspaper and magazine executives only wished they knew...