Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Agnes Repplier, 95, leading U.S. woman essayist; in Philadelphia. A cat-loving, chain-smoking spinster, she began writing at 30. To U.S. readers, who never put much store by the polite, personal essay, she managed to convey the impression that she was from another country. But she acquired an audience that remained fond of her well-bred talent for taking graceful potshots at varied targets...
...Dallas, a theater chain called off its plans to show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...death's handmaiden rides in a Rolls-Royce, flanked by grim motorcyclists, and communicates with Orpheus by shortwave radio. Her immediate superiors in the beyond-a bombed-out no man's land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life...
...water solution of uranyl nitrate which contains 1.9 lb. of fissionable U-235. Water running through a coiled tube keeps the reactor cool, and another tube piercing the sphere gives access to its interior. One big advantage of HYPO is that it is self-regulating. If the chain reaction gets going too fast, the solution heats up and expands, reducing its density and therefore its reactivity. So the reaction slows down automatically until the solution has cooled off. This built-in stability makes HYPO a safe and easy basic trainer for future atomic engineers...
...many Bostonians in his Paris hotel that it was just like being at home again. Last week, Conrad Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, made sure that other Americans would henceforth be able to share George Apley's pleasure. He set out to build a chain of foreign hotels just like those in the U.S., so that American tourists would feel completely at home abroad and meet the same people they meet in New York, Hollywood or Kansas City...