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...atomic development during World War II, and knew the theory of it well. What they did not know, and what the U.S. would not tell them, was the practical engineering technique of making fissionable material out of uranium ore. The Ministry of Supply has now published a slim, illustrated booklet, Britain's Atomic Factories, which tells what the British, starting almost from scratch at near wartime pressure, have accomplished...
...Communist chase and devote himself to less flamboyant pursuits. McCarthy was in full cry after an old quarry: Associate Physics Professor Wendell H. Furry of Harvard -and, through him, Harvard's new President Nathan M. Pusey, who has refused to fire Furry, and who once sponsored a booklet that denounced McCarthy...
...would mention a booklet to be published this week by S.P.C.K. [the Anglican ' Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge] entitled Infallible Fallacies,'" said the archbishop. "Roman Catholics in this country and wherever churches of the Anglican Communion exist have, as the booklet says, for some time past intensified their propaganda . . . We of the Anglican Communion . . . hate attacking another Christian body as much as many Roman Catholics deplore the constant attacks of their own church upon ours. But these attacks do call for occasional answers . . . and in this new booklet our people will find a reply...
...front of his large fireplace is a mountain of blue books. University rules require that each test booklet is kept for one year after the examination. And so Nock stacks the books carefully and on the three hundred and sixty-fifth day, he sweeps the pile into the fire. Then he prepares for the next batch...
...that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...